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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-21053

Medium
4.6/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x), O(8.x), and P(9.0) software. There is Clipboard access in the lockscreen state via a physical keyboard. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-12684 (October 2018).

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • 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