Viber through 11.7.0.5 allows a remote attacker who can capture a victim's internet traffic to steal their Viber account, because not all Viber protocol traffic is encrypted. TCP data packet 9 on port 4244 from the victim's device contains cleartext information such as the device model and OS version, IMSI, and 20 bytes of udid in a binary format, which is located at offset 0x14 of this packet. Then, the attacker installs Viber on his device, initiates the registration process for any phone number, but doesn't enter a pin from SMS. Instead, he closes Viber. Next, the attacker rewrites his udid with the victim's udid, modifying the viber_udid file, which is located in the Viber preferences folder. (The udid is stored in a hexadecimal format.) Finally, the attacker starts Viber again and enters the pin from SMS.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-11-06T15:34:07

Updated: 2019-11-13T16:33:35

Reserved: 2019-11-06T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-18800

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-06T16:15:10.993

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140


Link: CVE-2019-18800

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