CVE-2021-20315

published 2022-02-18

CVE-2021-20315: 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"…

Priority P4 25 medium 6.1 CVSS 3.1

AV P AC L PR N UI N S U C N I H A H

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

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
centos	stream	—	—
debian	gnome-shell	—	—
gnome	gnome-shell	< 3.32.2	3.32.2
gnome	gnome-shell	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 3.6 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

osv 6.1 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.1 LOW

vendor_redhat 6.1 MEDIUM

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