Information Exposure Affecting kde/kio-extras package, versions [0,20.04.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KDEKIOEXTRAS-2364913
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 May 2020

CVE-2020-12755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kde/kio-extras to version 20.04.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure fishProtocol::establishConnection in fish/fish.cpp in KDE kio-extras through 20.04.0 makes a cacheAuthentication call even if the user had not set the keepPassword option. This may lead to unintended KWallet storage of a password.

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CVSS Base Scores

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