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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-5921

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

WebKit in Apple iOS before 9 mishandles "Content-Disposition: attachment" HTTP headers, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published