CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12171

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-07-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-312, CWE-522

Description

Dropbox.exe (and QtWebEngineProcess.exe in the Web Helper) in the Dropbox desktop application 71.4.108.0 store cleartext credentials in memory upon successful login or new account creation. These are not securely freed in the running process.

Affected configurations

• dropbox dropbox 71.4.108.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References