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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-2076

Medium
5/10

Summary

MediaCAST 8 and earlier stores passwords in cleartext, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading an unspecified password data store, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0216.

  • LOW
  • 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