BlackBerry 10 Wi-Fi File Sharing Vulnerable to Password Bypass

It looks like Modzero has helped BlackBerry discover a vulnerability in the way BlackBerry 10 implements file sharing over Wi-Fi.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially result in an attacker gaining the ability to read, write, or modify data on the device. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must connect to an affected BlackBerry smartphone’s file sharing service.

This issue is mitigated for all customers by the prerequisite that the attacker must persuade the customer to turn on file sharing over Wi-Fi or locate a customer on the Wi-Fi network who has file sharing over Wi-Fi turned on. File sharing over Wi-Fi is not enabled by default.