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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 0.29% · 20.2th 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
0.29%
20.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | gnome-shell | * |
| gnome | gnome-shell |
Timeline
- Apr 29, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jun 19, 2022 EPSS Score
- Aug 9, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Feb 26, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 18, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jun 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 27, 2023 EPSS Score