Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE-2018-21059
Summary
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) software. There is Clipboard content visibility in the locked state via the emergency contact picker. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11806 (September 2018).
- 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