CVE-2019-12171

PoC ×2—

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p58

Published

Jul 8, 2019 (Jul 8, 2019)

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.

Vendors: dropbox
Products: dropbox
Weakness: CWE-312, CWE-522
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.9%)

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