CVE catalog
CVE-2018-20781
gnome-keyring: CVE-2018-20781
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.54% · Oct 27, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gnome-keyring | sid | 51.1-3 | fixed |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | forky | 51.1-3 | fixed |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | trixie | 48.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | bookworm | 42.1-1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.8.2-0ubuntu3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.16.0-4ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.8.2-0ubuntu3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.16.0-4ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gnome-keyring | source | sid | 3.28.0-1 | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | source | forky | 3.28.0-1 | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | source | trixie | 3.28.0-1 | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | gnome-keyring | source | bookworm | 3.28.0-1 | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | deb | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 | Not reported | USN-3894-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | deb | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 | Not reported | USN-3894-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | deb | 14.04 | 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.4 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20781 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | gnome-keyring | deb | 16.04 | 3.18.3-0ubuntu2.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20781 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [gnome-keyring]Fixed
Source package: [gnome-keyring]
Details (2)
42.1-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
42.1-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
- [gnome-keyring-pkcs11]Fixed
Source package: [gnome-keyring]
Details (2)
42.1-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
42.1-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
- [libpam-gnome-keyring]Fixed
Source package: [gnome-keyring]
Details (2)
42.1-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
42.1-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · bookworm; dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [gnome-keyring]Fixed
Details (2)
48.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
48.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
- [gnome-keyring-pkcs11]Fixed
Source package: [gnome-keyring]
Details (2)
48.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
48.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
- [libpam-gnome-keyring]Fixed
Source package: [gnome-keyring]
Details (2)
48.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
48.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
3.28.0-1dsa · gnome-keyring · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20781]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3894-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20781]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-20781.json]
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