CVE-2023-52723

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

In KDE libksieve before 23.03.80, kmanagesieve/session.cpp places a cleartext password in server logs because a username variable is accidentally given a password value.

Affected products

KDE Libksieve: all versions

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/30/1
https://invent.kde.org/pim/libksieve/-/commit/6b460ba93ac4ac503ba039d0b788ac7595120db1
https://invent.kde.org/pim/libksieve/-/tags/v23.03.80
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00004.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/30/1
https://invent.kde.org/pim/libksieve/-/commit/6b460ba93ac4ac503ba039d0b788ac7595120db1
https://invent.kde.org/pim/libksieve/-/tags/v23.03.80
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00004.html
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/25/1

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