CVE-2023-52723 (GCVE-0-2023-52723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-29 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:11
VLAI
Summary
In KDE libksieve before 23.03.80, kmanagesieve/session.cpp places a cleartext password in server logs because a username variable is accidentally given a password value.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kde libksieve Affected: -
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