Bug 1835372 (CVE-2020-12755)

Summary:	CVE-2020-12755 kio-extras: Unintended KWallet storage of a password
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	kde-sig, rdieter
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-05-13 17:23:57 UTC

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.

Upstream patch:

https://commits.kde.org/kio-extras/d813cef3cecdec9af1532a40d677a203ff979145

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-05-13 17:24:28 UTC

Created kio-extras tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 1835374]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1835373]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-14 03:15:26 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.