Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Dropbox for Windows - CVE-2019-12171

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Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Dropbox for Windows - CVE-2019-12171

Published: July 8, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35750
CSH Severity: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12171
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Dropbox for Windows
Software vendor:
Dropbox

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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