CVE-2019-3820
An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.50%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- EPSS
- 0.50% probability · 42th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-285, CWE-287
- Affected
- gnome/gnome-shell · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.