Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE-2016-8475
Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability in the HTC input driver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32591129.
- HIGH
- 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