CVE-2017-12164

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/26/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnome:gnome_display_manager

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-592CWE-665

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164(secalert@redhat.com)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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