CVE-2018-20781
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20781
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20781.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20781
- Related
- Published
- 2019-02-12T17:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-03-07T02:48:18.336150Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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://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
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20781
Affected packages
Debian:11 / gnome-keyring
Package
- Name
- gnome-keyring
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source
Debian:12 / gnome-keyring
Package
- Name
- gnome-keyring
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source
Debian:13 / gnome-keyring
Package
- Name
- gnome-keyring
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source
Git / gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
0.*
0.17.4
2.*
2.91.2
2.91.3
2.91.4
2.91.91
2.91.92
2.91.93
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.1.1
3.1.4
3.1.90
3.1.91
3.1.92
3.10.0
3.10.1
3.11.92
3.12.0
3.12.2
3.13.91
3.14.0
3.15.90
3.15.92
3.16.0
3.17.4
3.17.91
3.18.0
3.18.1
3.18.2
3.18.3
3.19.4
3.19.90
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.20.0
3.3.1
3.3.1.1
3.3.2
3.3.3
3.3.3.1
3.3.4
3.3.5
3.3.91
3.3.92
3.4.0
3.4.1
3.5.3
3.5.4
3.5.5
3.5.90
3.5.91
3.5.92
3.6.0
3.6.1
3.7.1
3.7.2
3.7.5
3.7.91
3.7.92
3.8.0
3.8.1
3.9.1
3.9.90
Other
GNOME_2_12_BRANCHPOINT
GNOME_2_14_BRANCHPOINT
GNOME_2_16_BRANCHPOINT
GNOME_2_6_BRANCHPOINT
GNOME_KEYRING_0_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_1_3
GNOME_KEYRING_0_1_4
GNOME_KEYRING_0_1_90
GNOME_KEYRING_0_1_91
GNOME_KEYRING_0_2_0
GNOME_KEYRING_0_2_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_3_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_3_2
GNOME_KEYRING_0_3_3
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_0
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_2
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_3
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_4
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_5
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_6
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_7
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_8
GNOME_KEYRING_0_4_9
GNOME_KEYRING_0_5_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_5_2
GNOME_KEYRING_0_6_0
GNOME_KEYRING_0_7_1
GNOME_KEYRING_0_7_2
GNOME_KEYRING_0_7_3
GNOME_KEYRING_0_7_91
GNOME_KEYRING_0_7_92
GNOME_KEYRING_0_8
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_4_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_6_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_90
GNOME_KEYRING_2_19_91
GNOME_KEYRING_2_20
GNOME_KEYRING_2_20_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_3
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_3_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_3_2
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_90
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_91
GNOME_KEYRING_2_21_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_22_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_22_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_22_2
GNOME_KEYRING_2_23_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_23_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_24_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_24_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_2
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_4_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_4_2
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_90
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_91
GNOME_KEYRING_2_25_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_26_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_26_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_26_3
GNOME_KEYRING_2_27_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_27_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_27_90
GNOME_KEYRING_2_27_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_28_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_28_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_28_2
GNOME_KEYRING_2_29_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_29_5
GNOME_KEYRING_2_29_90
GNOME_KEYRING_2_29_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_30_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_30_1
GNOME_KEYRING_2_31_4
GNOME_KEYRING_2_31_91
GNOME_KEYRING_2_31_92
GNOME_KEYRING_2_32_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_3_91
GNOME_KEYRING_2_91_0
GNOME_KEYRING_2_91_1
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