CVE-2015-7496

medium

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.

References

https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.news

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-11-24

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium