CVE-2020-12755 (GCVE-0-2020-12755)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-09 15:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
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