Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting gnome-keyring package, versions [3.4.0,3.5.90)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMEKEYRING-2381883
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-3466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnome-keyring to version 3.5.90 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness. GNOME gnome-keyring 3.4.0 through 3.4.1, when gpg-cache-method is set to "idle" or "timeout," does not properly limit the amount of time a passphrase is cached, which allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via unknown attack vectors.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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