CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20315

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2022-02-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start new ones as the locked user, even if the session is still locked.

Affected configurations

• gnome gnome-shell (< 3.32.2) • centos stream 8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References