CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-3044

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Apr 14, 2015 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary Redhat 5.0-client (including) 5.0-client (including)
Enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_supplementary Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus Redhat 6.6.z (including) 6.6.z (including)
Enterprise_linux_supplementary Redhat 5.0-server (including) 5.0-server (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu devel *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu lucid *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu precise *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu trusty *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu upstream *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu utopic *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu devel *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu lucid *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu precise *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu trusty *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu upstream *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu utopic *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary RedHat flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.457-1.el5 *
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.457-1.el6_6 *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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