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Unscored CVE-2021-20315 EUVD-2021-7740GHSA-hpr5-wwh9-pjhf

A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" o…

Published Feb 18, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— gnome-shell gnome-shell 3.32.2-40.el8 —

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