CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-5195

7.2 HIGH Published 2014-08-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-08-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Unity before 7.2.3 and 7.3.x before 7.3.1, as used in Ubuntu, does not properly take focus of the keyboard when switching to the lock screen, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by (1) leveraging a machine that had text selected when locking or (2) resuming from a suspension.

Affected configurations

• ayatana project unity (<= 7.2.2) • ayatana project unity 7.2.0 • ayatana project unity 7.2.1 • ayatana project unity 7.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References