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CVE-2010-3741The offline backup mechanism in Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Desktop Software uses single-iteration PBKDF2, which makes it easier…
- 4.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.28%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The offline backup mechanism in Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Desktop Software uses single-iteration PBKDF2, which makes it easier for local users to decrypt a .ipd file via a brute-force attack.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- http://blog.crackpassword.com/2010/09/smartphone-forensics-cracking-blackberry-backup-passwords/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7360 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://twitter.com/elcomsoft/statuses/25954970586 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-device-management/you-can-no-longer-rely-encryption-protect-blackberry-436 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/10/01/166226/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-3720 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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