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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-9731

High
7.5/10

Summary

In meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass in Poky in poky-pyro 17.0.0 for Yocto Project through YP Core - Pyro 2.3, attackers can obtain sensitive information by reading a URL in a Source entry in an ipk package.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • 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