CVE-2017-9821 (GCVE-0-2017-9821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-24 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:18
VLAI
Summary
The National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application 1.3 for Android relies on three hardcoded strings (AK-NPCIMB, IM-NPCIBM, and VK-NPCIBM) for SMS validation, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass authentication.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-06-16 00:00
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