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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-3894

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The Qualcomm DMA component in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 6 devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29618014 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1042033.

  • 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