CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40454

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Oct 13, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Rich Text Edit Control Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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
365_apps Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Office Microsoft 2013-sp1 (including) 2013-sp1 (including)
Office Microsoft 2013_rt-sp1 (including) 2013_rt-sp1 (including)
Office Microsoft 2016 (including) 2016 (including)
Office Microsoft 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Office Microsoft 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 20h2 (including) 20h2 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 21h1 (including) 21h1 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 (including) 1607 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1809 (including) 1809 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1909 (including) 1909 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 2004 (including) 2004 (including)
Windows_11 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server Microsoft 20h2 (including) 20h2 (including)
Windows_server Microsoft 2004 (including) 2004 (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft * *

Potential Mitigations

References