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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-0647

Medium
5/10

Summary

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.1.4 does not properly handle redirects in conjunction with HTTP authentication, which might allow remote web servers to capture credentials by logging the Authorization HTTP header.

  • 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