CVE-2020-17489

Name
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.)
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Exploit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2997
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4464-1/
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-08
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00014.html
Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00028.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* gnome-shell >= None <= 3.36.4

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status