CVE-2021-20315

MEDIUM

6.1

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.1

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorPHYSICAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published2/18/2022

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

centos:streamgnome:gnome-shell

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-667CWE-667

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006285(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006285(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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