CVE-2018-20781

Publication date 12 February 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gnome-keyring 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4

Patch details

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Package Patch details
gnome-keyring

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3894-1
    • GNOME Keyring vulnerability
    • 26 February 2019

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