CVE-2020-17489
An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.55%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visible. If the user had decided to have the password shown in cleartext at login time, it is then visible for a brief moment upon a logout. (If the password were never shown in cleartext, only the password length is revealed.)
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.55% probability · 46th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-522
- Affected
- gnome/gnome-shell · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux · opensuse/leap
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2997Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-08Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4464-1/Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2997Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-08Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4464-1/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.