CVE-2017-12164

4.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Gdm
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 July 2018

Summary

A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.

Affected Version(s)

gdm 3.24.1

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Physical
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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