Insecure Permissions Affecting keyring package, versions [0.9.2,0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-KEYRING-40006
  • published28 Nov 2011
  • disclosed28 Nov 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Nov 2011

CVE-2012-5578  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-275  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 0.10 or greater.

Overview

keyring is a Store and access your passwords safely. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure permissions due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5577.

It would create its configuration file world-readable which was fixed in CVE-2012-5577, however it only changed the permissions of an existing configuration file, which is incomplete.

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