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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-7759

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10 is affected. The issue involves the "Springboard" component, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by viewing application snapshots in the Task Switcher.

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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