CVE-2020-4099 (GCVE-0-2020-4099)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-01 17:55
Modified
2025-05-02 16:02
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-326 - Inadequate Encryption Strength
Summary
The application was signed using a key length less than or equal to 1024 bits, making it potentially vulnerable to forged digital signatures. An attacker could forge the same digital signature of the app after maliciously modifying the app.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HCL Software HCL Verse for Android Version: < 12.0.15
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