DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20781
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781
Upstream
Published
2019-02-12T17:29:00.243Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:04:40.561675Z
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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / gnome-keyring

Package

Name
gnome-keyring
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.28.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781.json"

Debian:12 / gnome-keyring

Package

Name
gnome-keyring
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.28.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781.json"

Debian:13 / gnome-keyring

Package

Name
gnome-keyring
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.28.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781.json"

Debian:14 / gnome-keyring

Package

Name
gnome-keyring
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnome-keyring?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.28.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781.json"