CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20781

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Feb 12, 2019 | Modified: Mar 16, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the users password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gnome_keyring Gnome * 3.27.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References