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CVE-2019-5848

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Nov 25, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5848
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/312.html

Incorrect font handling in autofill in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.142 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 75.0.3770.142 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat chromium-browser-0:75.0.3770.142-1.el6_10 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu bionic *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu devel *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu disco *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu eoan *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu trusty *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References

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