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Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2020-25900

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

HelloTalk through 3.4.1 stores full-precision GPS coordinates even when the user had intended to share only a country or city. Furthermore, these coordinates are placed into a database on the client of other users. (The client side was changed in 2019 to encrypt that database.)

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-359 - Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published