CVE-2019-17098 — Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in August Connect Wi-Fi Bridge App

Use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in August Connect Wi-Fi Bridge App, Connect Firmware allows an attacker to decrypt an intercepted payload containing the Wi-Fi network authentication credentials. This issue affects: August Connect Wi-Fi Bridge App version v10.11.0 and prior versions on Android. August Connect Firmware version 2.2.12 and prior versions.

Published Sep 30, 2020Updated Sep 17, 2024Sources: cvelistV5, Bitdefender

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

august

2 products listed

CVSS base

3.5

LOW

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

august

Products (2)

smart lock and connect wi fi bridge appconnect firmware

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Source
3.5	CVSS 3.1	LOW	—	—	cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

CWE-321

References

1 on the record

labs.bitdefender.com/2020/08/smart-locks-not-so-smart-with-wi-fi-security/
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Elsewhere on this site

augustevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-321other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.