Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting gnome-keyring-pam package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNOMEKEYRINGPAM-1380124
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Apr 2017

Introduced: 19 Apr 2017

CVE-2018-20781  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 gnome-keyring-pam.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-keyring-pam package and not the gnome-keyring-pam package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1