Bug 1835372 (CVE-2020-12755) - CVE-2020-12755 kio-extras: Unintended KWallet storage of a password
Summary: CVE-2020-12755 kio-extras: Unintended KWallet storage of a password
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-12755
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1835374 1835373
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-13 17:23 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2020-05-14 03:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-05-14 03:15:26 UTC
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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.
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