Insufficiently Protected Credentials The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnome-keyring  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GNOMEKEYRING-613827
  • published12 Feb 2019
  • disclosed12 Feb 2019

Introduced: 12 Feb 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-keyring package and not the gnome-keyring package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.