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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-8981

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 allows web pages to be stored locally which can be read by another user on the system.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • 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