CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8296
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Description
kedpm 0.5 and 1.0 creates a history file in ~/.kedpm/history that is written in cleartext. All of the commands performed in the password manager are written there. This can lead to the disclosure of the master password if the "password" command is used with an argument. The names of the password entries created and consulted are also accessible in cleartext.
Affected configurations
• ked password manager project ked password manager 0.5
• ked password manager project ked password manager 1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860817 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/kedpm/bugs/6/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/26/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860817 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-04 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/kedpm/bugs/6/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory