CVE-2020-12755

Summary

CVECVE-2020-12755
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-09 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionfishProtocol::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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kio-extras All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Only store password in KWallet if the user asked for it (d813cef3) · Commits · Network / KIO Extras · GitLab CONFIRM commits.kde.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180757 Debian Security Update for kio-extras (CVE-2020-12755)
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