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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-3812

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The MediaTek video codec driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28174833 and MediaTek internal bug ALPS02688832.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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