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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-5782

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

ImageIO in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 does not properly initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted TIFF image.

  • MEDIUM
  • 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