CVE-2018-20781

Published February 12th, 2019

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CVSS v3

7.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

2.1

LOW

Affected

PROJECT

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.

huntergregal/mimipenguin

A tool to dump the login password from the current linux user

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