CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20781
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
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.
Affected configurations
• gnome gnome keyring (< 3.27.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• oracle zfs storage appliance kit 8.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3 Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3 Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Third Party Advisory