CVE-2021-33057: Missing Authorization

The QQ application 8.7.1 for Android and iOS does not enforce the permission requirements e.g., android.permission.ACCESSFINELOCATION for determining the device's physical location. An attacker can use qq.createMapContext to create a MapContext object, use MapContext.moveToLocation to move the...

The FTC will go after companies misusing location, health, and other sensitive data

After the overturning of Roe V Wade, many feared that using, having access to, and sharing reproductive and sexual health data—once done freely—would be outlawed with the practice of abortion in many states. To protect such data from falling into the wrong hands, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs D-CA...

CVE-2022-26725

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4. Photo location information may persist after it is removed with Preview Inspector...

Data Brokers Track Abortion Clinic Visits for Anyone to Buy

Plus: Russia rerouted internet in occupied Ukraine, Grindr sold its users' location data to ad networks, and more...

CVE-2022-28780

Improper access control vulnerability in Weather prior to SMR May-2022 Release 1 allows that attackers can access location information that set in Weather without permission. The patch adds proper protection to prevent access to location information...

CVE-2022-28780

Improper access control vulnerability in Weather prior to SMR May-2022 Release 1 allows that attackers can access location information that set in Weather without permission. The patch adds proper protection to prevent access to location information...

CVE-2021-3720

An information disclosure vulnerability was reported in the Time Weather system widget on Legion Phone Pro L79031 and Legion Phone2 Pro L70081 that could allow other applications to access device GPS data...

Limiting your exposure to location data resellers

Location data is valuable, just ask Huq Industries, who make a living out of selling your location information, then found that the apps they bought it from hadn’t asked the end users permission to have it! Naughty! The organisations they sell it to use it for better marketing, to get a better...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2019-16256

Some Samsung devices include the SIMalliance Toolbox Browser aka S@T Browser on the UICC, which might allow remote attackers to retrieve location and IMEI information, or retrieve other data or execute certain commands, via SIM Toolkit STK instructions in an SMS message, aka Simjacker...

A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing

Carriers know where you are every time your phone reconnects to the cell network—but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn’t have to...

De-anonymization Story

This is important: Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB, effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work,...

Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially a...

CVE-2021-0518

In Wi-Fi, there is a possible leak of location-sensitive data due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-176541...

CVE-2021-0518

In Wi-Fi, there is a possible leak of location-sensitive data due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-176541...

CVE-2021-0518

In Wi-Fi, there is a possible leak of location-sensitive data due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-176541...

PT-2021-13166 · Google · Android

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions prior to the fixed version Description: There is a possible leak of location-sensitive data in Wi-Fi due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges...

CVE-2020-25408

A Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability exists in ProjectWorlds College Management System Php 1.0 that allows a remote attacker to modify, delete, or make a new entry of the student, faculty, teacher, subject, scores, location, and article data...

Projectsworlds College Management System 跨站请求伪造漏洞

ProjectWorlds College Management System is a college management system. projectWorlds College Management System is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, which can be exploited by attackers to modify, delete student, faculty, teacher, subject, grade, location, and article data or create new...

CVE-2021-0400

In injectBestLocation and handleUpdateLocation of GnssLocationProvider.java, there is a possible incorrect reporting of location data to emergency services due to improper input validation. This could lead to incorrect reporting of location data to emergency services with User execution privilege...

CVE-2021-0400

CVE-2021-0400 affects Android 9–11 in GnssLocationProvider.java. In injectBestLocation and handleUpdateLocation, there is improper input validation that could cause the device to report location data to emergency services incorrectly. Exploitation is local (attack vector: LOCAL) with no user inte...