CVE-2018-20781

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Gnome Keyring
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 February 2019

Summary

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://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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