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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-6246

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

In Android before the 2018-05-05 security patch level, NVIDIA Widevine Trustlet contains a vulnerability in Widevine TA where the software reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer, which may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue is rated as moderate. Android: A-69383916. Reference: N-CVE-2018-6246.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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