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RHEL 8 : gnome-settings-daemon (RHSA-2021:0266)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145440

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0266 advisory.

 - gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center (CVE-2020-14391)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected gnome-settings-daemon package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14391

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0266

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1873093

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145440

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0266.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2021

Updated: 5/24/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14391

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnome-settings-daemon

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14391

CWE: 522

RHSA: 2021:0266