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Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CVE-2021-1896

Severity Medium
Score 4.3/10

Summary

Weak configuration in WLAN could cause forwarding of unencrypted packets from one client to another in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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