CVE-2018-20781

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20781
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-12 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-16 14:02:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-522

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Application Gnome Gnome Keyring All All All All
Application Gnome Gnome Keyring All All All All
Application Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit 8.8 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
3.27.2 · Tags · GNOME / gnome-keyring · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
GitHub - huntergregal/mimipenguin: A tool to dump the login password from the current linux user MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 781486 – Password is kept in process memory after pam_open_session MISC bugzilla.gnome.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
GitHub - huntergregal/mimipenguin at d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
pam-gnome-keyring.so reveals user’s password credential as a plaintext form Edit (#3) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-keyring · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Vendor Advisory
Bug #1772919 “pam-gnome-keyring.so reveals user’s password crede...” : Bugs : gnome-keyring package : Ubuntu MISC bugs.launchpad.net Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3894-1: GNOME Keyring vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2021 MISC www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
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