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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-3897

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The WifiEnterpriseConfig class in net/wifi/WifiEnterpriseConfig.java in Wi-Fi in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-09-01 includes a password in the return value of a toString method call, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25624963.

  • 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