An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for iOS and Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may retrieve encrypted medical information of any user of the Ascensia cloud platform by performing Direct Object References with a series of user ID values. (This information can be decrypted through a different vulnerability.)
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2018-18976 is rated Exploit Available (50.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.21%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-03-17 | 0.13% | 0.21% | +0.08% |
| 2 | 2023-03-07 | 0.89% | 0.13% | -0.76% |
| 3 | 2022-02-04 | — | 0.89% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 3.0 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 1.4 | [email protected] |
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| ascensia | contour_diabetes | < 2.4.30 | cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:*:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* |
| ascensia | contour_diabetes | < 2.5.0 | cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://depthsecurity.com/blog/medical-exploitation-you-are-now-diabetic | Exploit Third Party Advisory |