CVE-2018-20781
HIGH 7.8EPSS 1.5%
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.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - EPSS
- 1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile
- Published
- 2019-02-12
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Metasploit modules (1)
Security advisories
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
- huntergregal/mimipenguin
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html