CVE-2020-17489 (GCVE-0-2020-17489)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-11 20:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:00
VLAI?
Summary
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.)
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issu… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4464-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-08 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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