vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2018-20781: gnome-keyring: user's login credentials is kept in a session-child process resulting in exposed plaintext password
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Feb 12, 2019 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 12, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
Rapid7 Labs
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