CVE-2020-15502: Duckduckgo

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Duckduckgo Duckduckgo: up to and including 5.58.0; up to and including 7.47.1.0

Published 2020-07-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.