KeyWe Smart Lock unauthorized access and traffic interception

Found on F-Secure on Friday, 13 December 2019
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The KeyWe smart lock suffers from multiple design flaws resulting in an unauthenticated - potentially malicious - actor being able to intercept and decrypt traffic coming from a legitimate user.

There are no mitigations to the issue at the time of writing. The only way, although inconvenient for the end user, is to pair a mobile device that will be as far from the device as possible and use a physical key/touchpad only.

Always remember: 99% of the products which claim to be "smart" are just really, really dumb; and useless.