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CVE-2020-14391

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CVE-2020-14391 is a local confidentiality vulnerability affecting the GNOME Control Center in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 versions prior to 8.2. It improperly exposes Red Hat Customer Portal credentials when a user registers a system through the GNOME Settings User Interface. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium) and allows a local attacker to discover the Red Hat Customer Portal password, posing a high threat to confidentiality. The attack complexity is low, and no user interaction is required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploit codes available (e.g., Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB). Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:control_center:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-settings-daemon-0:3.32.0-11.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: gnome-settings-daemon-0:3.32.0-9.el8_2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-14391Moderate

gnome-settings-daemon: Red Hat Customer Portal password logged and passed as command line argument when user registers through GNOME control center

Sep 8, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory