Weakness (CWE)
CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the information is collected.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Requirements
Identify and consult all relevant regulations for personal privacy. An organization may be required to comply with certain federal and state regulations, depending on its location, the type of business it conducts, and the nature of any private data it handles. Regulations may include Safe Harbor Privacy Framework [REF-340], Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) [REF-341], Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) [REF-342], General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [REF-1047], California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) [REF-1048], and others.
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Architecture and Design
Carefully evaluate how secure design may interfere with privacy, and vice versa. Security and privacy concerns often seem to compete with each other. From a security perspective, all important operations should be recorded so that any anomalous activity can later be identified. However, when private data is involved, this practice can in fact create risk. Although there are many ways in which private data can be handled unsafely, a common risk stems from misplaced trust. Programmers often trust the operating environment in which a program runs, and therefore believe that it is acceptable store private information on the file system, in the registry, or in other locally-controlled resources. However, even if access to certain resources is restricted, this does not guarantee that the individuals who do have access can be trusted.
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Implementation, Operation
Some tools can automatically analyze
documents to redact, strip, or "sanitize" private
information, although some human review might be
necessary. Tools may vary in terms of which document
formats can be processed.When calling an external program to automatically
generate or convert documents, invoke the program with
any available options that avoid generating sensitive
metadata. Some formats have well-defined fields that
could contain private data, such as Exchangeable image
file format (Exif), which can contain potentially
sensitive metadata such as geolocation, date, and time
[REF-1515] [REF-1516].
Source: MITRE CWE-359
224 results · Feed
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Medium 5.3
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in xwiki-platform-rest-server
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The `modifications` rest endpoint does not filter out entries according to the user's rights. Therefore, information hidden from unauthorized users are ex…
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Medium 6.5
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Secure Email and W…
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Medium 5.3
In affected versions of Octopus Server it was identified that when a sensitive value is a substring of another value, s…
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High 7.5
XWiki Platform Web Templates vulnerable to Missing Authorization and Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
XWiki Platform Web Templates are templates for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Through the suggestion feature, string and list properties of objects the user shouldn't have access to can be accessed in versions prior to 13.10.4 and 14.2. This include…
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Unscored —
There is a flaw in convert2rhel. convert2rhel passes the Red Hat account password to subscription-manager via the comma…
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High 8.8
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in notrinos/notrinoserp
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in GitHub repository notrinos/notrinoserp prior to v0.7. This results in privilege escalation to a system administrator account. An attacker can gain access to protected functionality such as c…
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Low 3.5
Missing rate limit when trying to join a password protected Nextcloud Talk conversation
Nextcloud Talk is a video and audio conferencing app for Nextcloud. Prior to versions 12.2.7, 13.0.7, and 14.0.3, password protected conversations are susceptible to brute force attacks if the attacker has the link/conversation token. It is recommended that t…
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Medium 4.9
JFrog Artifactory prior to version 7.31.10 and 6.23.38 is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure through the Project Adm…
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Low 2.4
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Nextcloud Talk
Nextcloud Talk is a video and audio conferencing app for Nextcloud. In versions prior to 13.0.5 and 14.0.0, a call moderator can indirectly enable user webcams by granting permissions, if they were enabled before removing the permissions. A patch is available…
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High 8.8
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in lquixada/cross-fetch
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in GitHub repository lquixada/cross-fetch prior to 3.1.5.
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Medium 5.3
Unauthenticated user can list hidden document from multiple velocity templates
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A guest user without the right to view pages of the wiki can still list documents by rendering some velocity documents. The problem has been patched in XW…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2022-24819 Scanner template
Unauthenticated user can retrieve the list of users through uorgsuggest.vm
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A guest user without the right to view pages of the wiki can still list documents related to users of the wiki. The problem has been patched in XWiki vers…
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Critical 9.1
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in alextselegidis/easyappointments
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in GitHub repository alextselegidis/easyappointments prior to 1.4.3.
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Low 2.6
Unauthorized forwarding of confidential headers in fluture-node
Fluture-Node is a FP-style HTTP and streaming utils for Node based on Fluture. Using `followRedirects` or `followRedirectsWith` with any of the redirection strategies built into fluture-node 4.0.0 or 4.0.1, paired with a request that includes confidential hea…
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High 8.0CVE-2022-0155 Public exploit
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in follow-redirects/follow-redirects
follow-redirects is vulnerable to Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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Medium 6.1
Emuse - eServices / eNvoice Exposure Of Private Personal Information
Emuse - eServices / eNvoice Exposure Of Private Personal Information due to lack of identification mechanisms and predictable IDs an attacker can scrape all the files on the service.
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Medium 5.3
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in elgg/elgg
elgg is vulnerable to Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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Medium 5.3
Adobe Acrobat Reader privacy violation vulnerability could lead to privilege escalation
Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Exposure vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to get access …
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Medium 5.3
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Friend finder functionality of GmbH Komoot version 10.26.9 up to …
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Medium 5.3
curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Act…
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS: SRX and NFX Series: Insufficient Web API private key protection
On Juniper Networks SRX Series and NFX Series, a local authenticated user with access to the shell may obtain the Web API service private key that is used to provide encrypted communication between the Juniper device and the authenticator services. Exploitati…
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High 7.5
Mattermost Server: initial_load API exposes unnecessary information
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.2.0. The initial_load API disclosed unnecessary personal information.
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Unscored —
Exposure of Private Information in Nextcloud Server 16.0.1 causes the server to send it's domain and user IDs to the Ne…
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Unscored —
Exposure of private information vulnerability in Photo Viewer in Synology Photo Station 6.8.1-3458 allows remote attack…