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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-9725

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2 allows for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which is a mechanism that allows web sites to request resources from external sites, avoiding the need to duplicate them. IBM Reference #: 1999539.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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