CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-10251

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: Mar 28, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The UCWeb UC Browser application through 2019-03-26 for Android uses HTTP to download certain modules associated with PDF and Microsoft Office files (related to libpicsel), which allows MITM attacks.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Uc_browser Ucweb * 2019-03-26 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References