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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-8079

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

qt5-qtwebkit before 5.4 records private browsing URLs to its favicon database, WebpageIcons.db.

  • 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