CVE-2018-15543

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the fingerprint API in conjunction with the Android keyGenerator class is not implemented. In other words, an attacker could authenticate with an arbitrary fingerprint. NOTE: the vendor indicates that this is not an attack of interest within the context of their threat model, which excludes Android devices on which rooting has occurred.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2018-15543

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2018-10-09T17:29:01

• Last Modified Date
• 2018-11-24T04:29:41

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

• Access Vector
• LOCAL

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• PARTIAL

• Availability Impact
• PARTIAL

• Base Score
• 4.6

• Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 3.9

• Impact Score
• 6.4

• Version
• 3.0

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack Vector
• PHYSICAL

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 6.8

• Base Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 0.9

• Impact Score
• 5.9