Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting gnome-keyring package, versions [,3.27.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMEKEYRING-2428358
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Feb 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade gnome-keyring to version 3.27.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. 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 Base Scores

version 3.1