CentOS 8 : gnome-shell (CESA-2022:1814)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160914

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:1814 advisory.

- gnome-shell: Password from logged-out user may be shown on login screen (CVE-2020-17489)

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-shell package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1814

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160914

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-1814.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17489

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnome-shell

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17489

RHSA: 2022:1814