CVE-2009-0365

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

nm-applet.conf in GNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 contains an incorrect deny setting, which allows local users to discover (1) network connection passwords and (2) pre-shared keys via calls to the GetSecrets method in the dbus request handler.

Affected products

Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34067
http://secunia.com/advisories/34177
http://secunia.com/advisories/34473
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021910
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021911
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/network-manager-applet/trunk/nm-applet.conf?r1=1133&r2=1207&pathrev=1207
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/network-manager-applet?view=revision&revision=1207
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1955
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0361.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0362.html

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