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CVE-2021-3982

CVE-2021-3982 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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 code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.

EPSS 0.03% · 10.5th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.03%
10.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/agnome-shell*
gnomegnome-shell

Timeline

  • Apr 29, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jun 19, 2022 EPSS Score
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