CVE-2019-12171

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.

• CWE-312
• CWE-522

• 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

Published

Jul 8, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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