Vigil@nce - GNOME Shell: information disclosure via Password Visible On Logout
September 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Ubuntu.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: physical access.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/08/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via Password
Visible On Logout of GNOME Shell, in order to obtain sensitive
information.
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