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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-6547

High
7.8/10

Summary

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app stores the account password used to authenticate to the cloud API in cleartext in the cache.db file.

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

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