CVE-2019-12171

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-312 CWE-522

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DCGurwRTu0HsUpTglVR0jgItZNqqDm_5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1msz6pb08crPC0VT7s_Z_KTsKm9CbLJEXNsmRwzoNLy8Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DCGurwRTu0HsUpTglVR0jgItZNqqDm_5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1msz6pb08crPC0VT7s_Z_KTsKm9CbLJEXNsmRwzoNLy8Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 8, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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