Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnome-shell-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMESHELLDEBUGSOURCE-1342415
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Aug 2020

Introduced: 11 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-17489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-shell-debugsource package and not the gnome-shell-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

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.)