CVE-2018-18698 — An issue was discovered on Xiaomi Mi A1 tissot_sprout:8

An issue was discovered on Xiaomi Mi A1 tissot_sprout:8.1.0/OPM1.171019.026/V9.6.4.0.ODHMIFE devices. They store cleartext Wi-Fi passwords in logcat during the process of setting up the phone as a hotspot.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on Xiaomi Mi A1 tissot_sprout:8.1.0/OPM1.171019.026/V9.6.4.0.ODHMIFE devices. They store cleartext Wi-Fi passwords in logcat during the process of setting up the phone as a hotspot.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-12-24T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:16:00.399Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/0x5h1v4m/CVE-ID-s/blob/master/CVE-2018-18698/MI%20A1.txt