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CVE-2021-20315
CVE-2021-20315
REJECTED
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.
EPSS 0.03% · 8.9th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.03%
8.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | gnome-shell | 3.16.4-0ubuntu1, 3.18.1-1ubuntu1, 3.18.2-0ubuntu1 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Feb 18, 2022 CVE Published
- Feb 19, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jun 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 16, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 7, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 19, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 13, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jun 4, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-20315 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006285 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20315 third-party-advisory