A vulnerability was found in KDE kio-extras up to 20.04.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function fishProtocol::establishConnection of the file fish/fish.cpp. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared 05/09/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at commits.kde.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-12755 since 05/09/2020. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• KDE

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• kio-extras

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• 20.04

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• open-source

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