Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting gnome-shell package, versions <3.36.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-GNOMESHELL-5681317
  • published12 Aug 2020
  • disclosed11 Aug 2020

Introduced: 11 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-17489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 gnome-shell to version 3.36.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-shell package and not the gnome-shell package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.)

CVSS Scores

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