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CVE-2017-15999

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-319

Description

In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, no HTTPS is used for transmitting login and synced user data. When logging in, the username is transmitted in cleartext along with an SHA-1 hash of the password. The attacker can either crack this hash or use it for further attacks where only the hash value is required.

Affected products

• Nq Contacts Backup & Restore: 1.1

References

• https://1337sec.blogspot.de/2017/10/auditing-nq-contacts-backup-restore-11.html
• https://1337sec.blogspot.de/2017/10/auditing-nq-contacts-backup-restore-11.html

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