Vulnerability in Gnome Keyring
CVE-2018-20781
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.
EPSS: 0.015 (71.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Gnome Gnome_keyring
- Oracle Zfs_storage_appliance_kit — versions 8.8
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-20781?
- CVE-2018-20781 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnome Keyring, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-02-12.
- How severe is CVE-2018-20781?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2018-20781 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.