Shotwell up to 0.24.4/0.25.3 Web Publishing Credentials information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Shotwell up to 0.24.4/0.25.3 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Web Publishing. The manipulation leads to information disclosure (Credentials). This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-1000024. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Shotwell up to 0.24.4/0.25.3. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Web Publishing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Credentials). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Shotwell version 0.24.4 or earlier and 0.25.3 or earlier is vulnerable to a information disclosure in the web publishing plugins resulting in potential password and oauth token plaintext transmission

The bug was discovered 01/31/2017. The weakness was shared 07/17/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at mail.gnome.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-1000024 since 07/10/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 167 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 102259 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.04 : shotwell vulnerability (USN-3379-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 170925 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for shotwell (SUSE-SU-2018:0637-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (102259). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Shotwell

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• 0.24.0
• 0.24.1
• 0.24.2
• 0.24.3
• 0.24.4
• 0.25.0
• 0.25.1
• 0.25.2
• 0.25.3

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