I'm pointing that when I add chromium on a fresh Ubuntu install it does not do configure itself to use the libsecret keyring. When I add chromium on a fresh Debian/Gnome Desktop install it does. This difference is in packaging, and presumably came when chromium was migrated to use snap. But I would think what should happen is the prior behavior, if you're on a gnome with libsecret, it by default should use the OS key ring.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2038875 Title: Snap uses hardcoded key and salt for password and cookie encryption Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: A working Ubuntu install includes Gnome which includes the gnome- keyring. The snap version of Ubuntu does not make use of it. On an install of Debian with Gnome, the key ring is used. However, with Ubuntu everything is encrypted with the static key of peanuts and the salt of saltysalt, and openly accessible as sqlite databases in ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium, including passwords from the browser and the cookies. This should probably be fixed. If a laptop is physically compromised it's trivial to decrypt this with a tool like xbrowser. You can verify that gnome-libcrypt isn't chosen by default with --enable-logging=stderr --v=1 redirect stderr to a log and look for Crypt. You can see /why/ gnome-libcrypt isn't chosen with chromium --password-store=gnome-libcrypt --enable-logging=stderr --v=1 and again looking for messages with Crypt. I don't think this is a vulnerability per se, Chrome ships in Debian with the ability to use a basic store too. But it's an undesirable configuration and a regression from Debian when it's run on a platform with gnome and libsecret, and only doesn't work because of snap. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/2038875/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
