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CVE-2018-20781

CVE-2018-20781

18Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 1.5%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDFeb 12
metasploitMay 23
exploitation probability
1.5%top 28% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguinhttps://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792dahttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html