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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-1490

Medium
4.1/10

Summary

The Wifi hotspot in Lenovo SHAREit before 3.2.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive file names via a crafted file request to /list.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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