Information Exposure Affecting networkmanager/networkmanager package, versions [,0.7.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETWORKMANAGERNETWORKMANAGER-2635692
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-4145  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for networkmanager/networkmanager.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure nm-connection-editor in NetworkManager (NM) 0.7.x exports connection objects over D-Bus upon actions in the connection editor GUI, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading D-Bus signals, as demonstrated by using dbus-monitor to discover the password for the WiFi network.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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