CVE-2021-20315

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/agnome-shellgnome-shell 3.32.2-40.el8affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-667: CWE-667

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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