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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2020-10096

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Zammad 3.0 through 3.2. It does not prevent caching of confidential data within browser memory. An attacker who either remotely compromises or obtains physical access to a user's workstation can browse the browser cache contents and obtain sensitive information. The attacker does not need to be authenticated with the application to view this information, as it would be available via the browser cache.

  • 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