CVE-2018-20781

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

published February 12, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
74.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01543 · 74.8th percentile
Published
2019-02-12T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 FEB 17:00Z
    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
    cvelistv5