What is CVE-2016-1000002?

CVE-2016-1000002 is a low-severity vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.4/10. Published 2019-11-05.

How severe is CVE-2016-1000002?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.4 out of 10.

Information disclosure in GNOME Display Manager

CVE-2016-1000002

gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2019-11-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.4 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (42.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNOME Display Manager — versions 3.14.2
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
openSUSE Leap — versions 42.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

raw.githubusercontent.com/distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist/master/2016/1000xxx… (Third Party Advisory)
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000002 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1000002?: CVE-2016-1000002 is a low-severity vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.4/10. Published 2019-11-05.
How severe is CVE-2016-1000002?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.4 out of 10.