Insecure Storage of Cleartext Credentials in Dropbox Desktop Application
CVE-2019-12171 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.
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