A vulnerability was found in StashCat up to 3.9.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Database File. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in the stashcat app through 3.9.2 for macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and possibly other platforms. It stores the client_key, the device_id, and the public key for end-to-end encryption in cleartext, enabling an attacker (by copying or having access to the local storage database file) to login to the system from any other computer, and get unlimited access to all data in the users's context.

The weakness was disclosed 06/17/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-13637 since 05/27/2020. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1555 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.2

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