Improper Authentication Affecting gnome-shell package, versions [3.15.91,3.30.3)[3.31.0,3.31.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMESHELL-2382551
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-3820  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnome-shell to version 3.30.3, 3.31.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1