Vulnerability in GNOME Gtk
CVE-2014-1949
GTK+ 3.10.9 and earlier, as used in cinnamon-screensaver, gnome-screensaver, and other applications, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by pressing the menu button.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (25.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Gtk
- Linuxmint Linux Mint — versions 17.0
- Canonical Ubuntu — versions 14.04
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/327 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2475-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/44 (Third Party Advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0374.html (Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/331 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)