Information Exposure Affecting accountsservice package, versions [,0.6.37]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-2382839
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Nov 2019

CVE-2012-6655  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for accountsservice.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue exists AccountService 0.6.37 in the user_change_password_authorized_cb() function in user.c which could let a local users obtain encrypted passwords.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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