PT-2024-28799 · Unknown · Life: Personal Diary

Published 2024-11-08 · Updated 2024-11-13 · CVE-2024-40239

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Life: Personal Diary, Journal android app version 17.5.0

Description An issue with access control in the Life: Personal Diary, Journal android app allows a physically proximate attacker to escalate privileges via the fingerprint authentication function. This enables someone nearby to potentially exploit the flaw.

Recommendations For version 17.5.0, consider disabling the fingerprint authentication function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to sensitive features that rely on fingerprint authentication to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-40239

Affected Products

Life: Personal Diary

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40239 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40239 · Vendor Advisory
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hitbytes.minidiarynotes · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/10210 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1854977659207319857 · Twitter Post
• https://zzzxiin.github.io/post/life-personal-diary · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/101586 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1854945138679939568 · Twitter Post