Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting gdm package, versions [,3.36.2)[3.38.0,3.38.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GDM-2370036
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gdm to version 3.36.2, 3.38.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions gdm3 versions before 3.36.2 or 3.38.2 would start gnome-initial-setup if gdm3 can't contact the accountservice service via dbus in a timely manner; on Ubuntu (and potentially derivatives) this could be be chained with an additional issue that could allow a local user to create a new privileged account.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1