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.

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 3.0

Priority: P2 - Serious (High)

• S1 – Steal Customer Account Information

EPSS

Score: 0.00153
Percentile: 0.36775

CVSS Scoring

Mapped CWE(s)

• CWE-319 : Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

All CAPEC(s)

CAPEC(s) with Mapped TTPs

Mapped ATT&CK TTPs

• T1056.004 : Credential API Hooking
  Kill Chain: collection
• T1040 : Network Sniffing
  Kill Chain: credential-access

Malware

APTs Threat Group Associations

Campaigns

Affected Products

• cpe:2.3:a:nq:contacts_backup_\&_restore:1.1:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

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