Improper Check for Dropped Privileges Affecting gnome-shell package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMESHELL-2806356
  • published1 May 2022
  • disclosed1 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2022

CVE-2021-3982  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-273  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Dropped Privileges where an attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1