CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8288

8.1 HIGH Published 2017-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applications (but not interact with them), see information from the extensions (e.g., what applications you have opened or what music you were playing), or even execute arbitrary commands. It all depends on what extensions a user has enabled. The problem is caused by lack of exception handling in js/ui/extensionSystem.js.

Affected configurations

• gnome gnome-shell 3.22.0 • gnome gnome-shell 3.22.1 • gnome gnome-shell 3.22.2 • gnome gnome-shell 3.22.3 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.1 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.2 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.3 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.90 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.91 • gnome gnome-shell 3.23.92 • gnome gnome-shell 3.24.0 • gnome gnome-shell 3.24.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References