Vulnerability in Gnome-shell

CVE-2021-3982

Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load cod…

EPSS: 0.000 (10.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • N/a Gnome-shell — versions gnome-shell downstream versions using CAP_SYS_NICE

Weakness classification (CWE)

References