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CVE-2018-20781
CVE-2018-20781
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 9.92% · 93.2th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
9.92%
93.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | gnome-keyring | 0, 3.16.0-4ubuntu2, 3.18.3-0ubuntu2 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | gnome-keyring | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1, 0, 3.8.2-0ubuntu3 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2018-20781 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2018-20781 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2018-20781 (circl-sighting)
- USN-3894-1 (circl)
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html (circl)
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2 (circl)
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3 (circl)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919 (circl)
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486 (circl)
- https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da (circl)
…and 1 more exploits
Timeline
- Feb 12, 2019 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 19, 2022 PoC Published
- Sep 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 13, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20781 third-party-advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3894-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20781 third-party-advisory