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Vulnerability CVE-2020-17489
Published: 2020-08-11
| Description: |
An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visible for a brief moment upon a logout. (If the password were never shown in cleartext, only the password length is revealed.) |
Type:
CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
3.5/10 |
2.9/10 |
6.8/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Medium |
Single time |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
None |
None |
References: |
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2997
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