Security Advisory

CVE-2013-4509

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-11-23 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 16:45:14
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The default configuration of IBUS 1.5.4, and possibly 1.5.2 and earlier, when IBus.InputPurpose.PASSWORD is not set and used with GNOME 3, does not obscure the entered password characters, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain a user password by reading the lockscreen.