CVE-2018-20781

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-02-12

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-522

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Gnome Keyring (Gnome)
• Zfs Storage Appliance Kit (Oracle)

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
• https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
• https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html