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Credentials Management Errors

CVE-2008-7320

Severity Medium
Score 6.8/10

Summary

GNOME Seahorse through 3.30 allows physically proximate attackers to read plaintext passwords by using the quickAllow dialog at an unattended workstation, if the keyring is unlocked. NOTE: this is disputed by a software maintainer because the behavior represents a design decision

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-255 - Credentials Management Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published