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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th 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?

There is no fixed version for kde/kio-extras.

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.

References

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