CVE-2020-14391

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-522

Description

A flaw was found in the GNOME Control Center in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 versions prior to 8.2, where it improperly uses Red Hat Customer Portal credentials when a user registers a system through the GNOME Settings User Interface. This flaw allows a local attacker to discover the Red Hat Customer Portal password. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Affected products

GNOME Control Center: all versions

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873093
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873093

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