Vulnerability CVE-2009-4145
Published: 2009-12-23   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
nm-connection-editor in NetworkManager (NM) 0.7.x exports connection objects over D-Bus upon actions in the connection editor GUI, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading D-Bus signals, as demonstrated by using dbus-monitor to discover the password for the WiFi network.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnome -> Networkmanager 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546117
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=8627880e07c8345f69ed639325280c7f62a8f894
http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=56d87fcb86acb5359558e0a2ee702cfc0c3391f2
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54898
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37580
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0108.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/16/3
http://secunia.com/advisories/38420
http://secunia.com/advisories/37819
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10539
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00000.html
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