VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-7496
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.41%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.41%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.41% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- fedoraproject/fedora · gnome/gnome display manager
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.newsPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.newsPatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.