CVE-2020-17489

Description

An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visible for a brief moment upon a logout. (If the password were never shown in cleartext, only the password length is revealed.)

Risk Information

Base Score

4.3

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.149

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
graphical shell for the GNOME desktop (USN-4464-1) gnome-shell_3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2_amd64.deb	Linux
(RHSA-2022:1814) gnome-shell security and bug fix update gnome-shell-debugsource-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm	Linux
gnome-shell security and bug fix update (RLSA-2022:1814) gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2022:1814) gnome-shell security and bug fix update gnome-shell-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2022:1814)Low: security and bug fix update gnome-shell-debuginfo-3.32.2-44.el8.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234