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CVE-2018-20781

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
4.253

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) gnome-keyring_3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4_i386.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) gnome-keyring_3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4_amd64.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) gnome-keyring_3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) gnome-keyring_3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) libpam-gnome-keyring_3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4_i386.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) libpam-gnome-keyring_3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4_amd64.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) libpam-gnome-keyring_3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
GNOME keyring services (USN-3894-1) libpam-gnome-keyring_3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234