CVE-2018-20781

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3

https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da

https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3