CVE-2013-7252
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
kwalletd in KWallet before KDE Applications 14.12.0 uses Blowfish with ECB mode instead of CBC mode when encrypting the password store, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords via a codebook attack.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| kde | kde_applications | {"endIncluding":"14.11.3"} | |
References
- http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/09/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67716
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048168
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-19
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20150109-1.txt
- http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/02/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/09/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67716
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048168
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-19
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20150109-1.txt
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.