Sky Go Desktop Application up to 1.0.23-1 on Windows information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Sky Go Desktop Application up to 1.0.23-1 on Windows. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-18908. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Sky Go Desktop Application up to 1.0.23-1 on Windows. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Sky Go Desktop application 1.0.19-1 through 1.0.23-1 for Windows performs several requests over cleartext HTTP. This makes the data submitted in these requests prone to Man in The Middle (MiTM) attacks, whereby an attacker would be able to obtain the data sent in these requests. Some of the requests contain potentially sensitive information that could be useful to an attacker, such as the victim's Sky username.

The bug was discovered 11/02/2018. The weakness was shared 01/20/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at blog.sean-wright.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-18908 since 11/02/2018. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 79 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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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• Sky

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• Go Desktop Application

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• 1.0.23-1

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