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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gnome-keyring: user's login credentials is kept in a session-child process resulting in exposed plaintext     password (CVE-2018-20781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gnome-keyring: user's login credentials is kept in a session-child process resulting in exposed plaintext     password (CVE-2018-20781)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the version of the gnome-keyring packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2018-20781)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the gnome-keyring packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2018-20781)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that GNOME Keyring incorrectly cleared out credentials supplied to the PAM module. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to discover login credentials.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
195726	RHEL 6 : gnome-keyring (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195636	RHEL 7 : gnome-keyring (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
147425	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2021-1478)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
146659	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2021-1300)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
145209	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2021-1071)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
142128	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2020-2283)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
122480	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNOME Keyring vulnerability (USN-3894-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-20781

high

Tenable Plugins

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