Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gnome-shell package, versions [,2.31.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMESHELL-2382552
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Nov 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2010

CVE-2010-4000  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gnome-shell.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass gnome-shell in GNOME Shell 2.31.5 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1