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7PK - Security Features

CVE-2016-8503

Severity High
Score 7.3/10

Summary

Yandex Protect Anti-phishing warning in Yandex Browser for desktop from version 16.7 to 16.9 could be used by remote attacker for brute-forcing passwords from important web-resource with special JavaScript.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-254 - Security Features

Security features are integrated into the application infrastructure to protect its resources and the trusted environment against a known exploit, threat, or vulnerability. However, flawed, disabled, or absent security features expose the application to a variety of attacks. This is a multidimensional vulnerability with broad potential impact. It can lead to defacement, confidentiality compromise, system takeover, etc.

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  • Published