CVE-2021-20315
6.1MEDIUM
Summary
A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start new ones as the locked user, even if the session is still locked.
Affected Version(s)
gnome-shell = gnome-shell 3.32.2-40.el8
CVSS V3.1
Score:
6.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Physical
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged
Timeline
Vulnerability published.
Vulnerability Reserved.
Collectors
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