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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-7634

Medium
4.6/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Accessibility" component, which accepts spoken passwords without considering that they are locally audible.

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • 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