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Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client in McAfee True Key (TK) prior to 6.2.109.2 allows a local user logged in with administrative privileges to access to another user’s passwords on the same machine via triggering a process dump in specific situations.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

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(7th percentile)

Weaknesses

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7299

GHSA ID

GHSA-87jm-5jcp-mrf7

Source code

No known source code

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