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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-5282

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

mIRC prior to 7.22 has a message leak because chopping of outbound messages is mishandled.

  • 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