CVE-2019-12171: Dropbox

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dropbox Dropbox: version 71.4.108.0 only

Published 2019-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.