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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-11040

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, when reading from sysfs nodes, one can read more information than it is allowed to.

  • LOW
  • 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