vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2012-6655: accountsservice: local encrypted password disclosure when changing password

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 27, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue exists AccountService 0.6.37 in the user_change_password_authorized_cb() function in user.c which could let a local users obtain encrypted passwords.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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