Description

Permission control vulnerability in the clipboard module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

Executive Summary

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Additional Metadata

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  "score": "5.5",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-17T09:17:31.010Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-08-17T09:17:31.010Z",
  "executiveSummary": "An authorization and permission control vulnerability has been identified within the clipboard module, posing a direct threat to data confidentiality.\nThis security defect allows unauthorized entities or processes to interact with or extract sensitive data stored within the system clipboard.\nThe affected system component is the designated clipboard module responsible for managing temporary data storage and inter-process communication.\nRisk implications include the potential exposure of sensitive user information, credentials, or proprietary data copied to the clipboard during normal system operations.\nSuccessful exploitation of this vulnerability enables an attacker with local or contextual execution capabilities to bypass intended access control restrictions and harvest sensitive payload data.\nSpecific exploitation prerequisites depend on the underlying execution context, but generally require sufficient interaction with the vulnerable module's API or underlying IPC mechanisms to harvest unauthorized data disclosures.",
  "technicalDetails": "The root cause of the vulnerability stems from inadequate permission validation checks and access control enforcement within the clipboard module.\nIn a secure implementation, access to shared system clipboard resources must be strictly gated by robust authorization protocols to ensure only designated, privileged, or interacting contexts can read or write data.\nDue to the absence of proper privilege verification logic, calling processes may circumvent standard security boundaries, allowing unauthorized components to query and extract clipboard contents.\nThe vulnerable component resides strictly within the clipboard management module, specifically handling inter-process requests and data retrieval functions.\nThe attack flow initiates when an unauthorized process or untrusted context invokes the clipboard module's data retrieval interface without supplying valid authorization tokens or meeting required privilege thresholds.\nBecause the module fails to properly authenticate the requester or validate its access rights, it processes the request and returns the stored clipboard payload to the caller.\nPost-exploitation impact is characterized by a breach of service confidentiality, where sensitive strings, personal identifiable information (PII), authentication tokens, or operational data residing temporarily in the clipboard are exfiltrated by the unauthorized actor.\nAuthentication and privilege requirements are bypassed due to the flawed permission control architecture, potentially enabling low-privilege or sandboxed components to interact with resources outside their intended security domain."
}