CVE-2018-20781
moderate-risk
Published 2019-02-12
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.
Do I need to act?
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7.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.8/10
High
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (4)
References (16)
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5...
Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
Release Notes
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5...
Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
Release Notes
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
10/34 · Low
Exposure
10/34 · Low