Vulnerability CVE-2013-7252
Published: 2015-01-18

Description:
kwalletd in KWallet before KDE Applications 14.12.0 uses Blowfish with ECB mode instead of CBC mode when encrypting the password store, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords via a codebook attack.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
kwallet crypto misuse
Florian Weimer
02.01.2014

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
KDE -> Kde applications 

 References:
http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/09/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67716
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048168
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-19
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20150109-1.txt
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