Vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager
CVE-2015-7496
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
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: 0.004 (32.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Display Manager
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 23
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10 (mailing-list)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128 (vendor-advisory)
- download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.news (Patch)
- bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8 (mailing-list)