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CVE-2018-20781

high

Description

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/

https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da

https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-02-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04708