CVE-2020-12755

low

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

2.5

Description

fishProtocol::establishConnection in fish/fish.cpp in KDE kio-extras through 20.04.0 makes a cacheAuthentication call even if the user had not set the keepPassword option. This may lead to unintended KWallet storage of a password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12755

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`20.04.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4:20.08.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4:20.08.3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4:20.08.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4:20.08.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4:20.08.3-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12755

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.