vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2013-2120: kdeplasma-addons -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 11, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The %{password(...)} macro in pastemacroexpander.cpp in the KDE Paste Applet before 4.10.5 in kdeplasma-addons does not properly generate passwords, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a brute-force attack.

Solution

debian-upgrade-kdeplasma-addons
Title
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