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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

CVE-2021-31989

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

A user with permission to log on to the machine hosting the AXIS Device Manager client could under certain conditions extract a memory dump from the built-in Windows Task Manager application. The memory dump may potentially contain credentials of connected Axis devices.

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

CWE-316 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory

The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in memory.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published