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CVE-2019-12171

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-312

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 products

• Dropbox: 71.4.108.0

References

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DCGurwRTu0HsUpTglVR0jgItZNqqDm_5
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1msz6pb08crPC0VT7s_Z_KTsKm9CbLJEXNsmRwzoNLy8
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DCGurwRTu0HsUpTglVR0jgItZNqqDm_5
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1msz6pb08crPC0VT7s_Z_KTsKm9CbLJEXNsmRwzoNLy8

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