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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-7427

Medium
5/10

Summary

IBM DataPower Gateway appliances with firmware 6.x before 6.0.0.17, 6.0.1.x before 6.0.1.17, 7.x before 7.0.0.10, 7.1.0.x before 7.1.0.7, and 7.2.x before 7.2.0.1 do not set the secure flag for unspecified cookies in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture these cookies by intercepting their transmission within an http session.

  • 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