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gnome-keyring — security advisory
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.
- Products
- gnome-keyring
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.28.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20781
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781
gnome-keyring
Fixed versions: 3.28.0-1
gnome-keyring
Fixed versions: 3.28.0-1
gnome-keyring
Fixed versions: 3.28.0-1
Complete source record
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