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Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CVE-2019-10251

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

The UCWeb UC Browser application through 2019-03-26 for Android uses HTTP to download certain modules associated with PDF and Microsoft Office files (related to libpicsel), which allows MITM attacks.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

The software transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published