CVE-2017-15918 (GCVE-0-2017-15918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:04
VLAI
Summary
Sera 1.2 stores the user's login password in plain text in their home directory. This makes privilege escalation trivial and also exposes the user and system keychains to local attacks.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-10-31 00:00
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