Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gnome-shell package, versions [,3.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMESHELL-2382546
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Apr 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2014

CVE-2013-7221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnome-shell to version 3.10.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The automatic screen lock functionality in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.10 does not prevent access to the "Enter a Command" dialog, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1