CVE-2018-19358 — GNOME Keyring through 3

GNOME Keyring through 3.28.2 allows local users to retrieve login credentials via a Secret Service API call and the D-Bus interface if the keyring is unlocked, a similar issue to CVE-2008-7320. One perspective is that this occurs because available D-Bus protection mechanisms (inv

01What is this vulnerability?

GNOME Keyring through 3.28.2 allows local users to retrieve login credentials via a Secret Service API call and the D-Bus interface if the keyring is unlocked, a similar issue to CVE-2008-7320. One perspective is that this occurs because available D-Bus protection mechanisms (involving the busconfig and policy XML elements) are not used. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because, according to the…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-18T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T01:40:52.760Z

09References

• bugs.launchpad.net — https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1780365
• github.com — https://github.com/sungjungk/keyring_crack
• www.youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4E9ZQaPck
• gitlab.gnome.org — https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/-/issues/5#note_1876550
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652194#c8