| Name | CVE-2018-20781 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gnome-keyring (PTS) | jessie | 3.14.0-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 3.20.0-3 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.28.2-5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.36.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 42.1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 46.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| gnome-keyring | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| gnome-keyring | source | (unstable) | 3.28.0-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
Not a vulnerability, just a hardening patch