CVE-2018-20781

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Publication date:

12/02/2019

Last modified:

16/03/2021

Description

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user&#39;s password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

2.10

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_keyring::::::::		3.27.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::esm:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:zfs_storage_appliance_kit:8.8:::::::*

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CVE-2018-20781

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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