Information Exposure Affecting kio-extras package, versions <4:20.08.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-KIOEXTRAS-1549319
  • published11 May 2020
  • disclosed9 May 2020

Introduced: 9 May 2020

CVE-2020-12755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 kio-extras to version 4:20.08.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kio-extras package and not the kio-extras package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

fishProtocol::establishConnection in fish/fish.cpp in KDE kio-extras through 20.04.0 makes a cacheAuthentication call even if the user had not set the keepPassword option. This may lead to unintended KWallet storage of a password.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1