Vulnerability · Published Jul 2, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15502
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The DuckDuckGo application through 5.58.0 for Android, and through 7.47.1.0 for iOS, sends hostnames of visited web sites within HTTPS .ico requests to servers in the duckduckgo.com domain, which might make visit data available temporarily at a Potentially Unwanted Endpoint. NOTE: the vendor has stated "the favicon service adheres to our strict privacy policy.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/blob/e2f2d54a6b4452277467db403a3546512401b493/app/src/main/java/com/duckduckgo/app/global/UriExtension.kt#L83-L88 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS/blob/1ae03d7221180bd6791cf6f7f06922a96335cf75/Core/AppUrls.swift#L98-L100 x_refsource_MISC
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 x_refsource_MISC
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711597 x_refsource_MISC