CVE-2020-27837
—CVSS 3.1
6.4 medium
EPSS
<1%p13
Published
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Modified
Description
A flaw was found in GDM in versions prior to 3.38.2.1. A race condition in the handling of session shutdown makes it possible to bypass the lock screen for a user that has autologin enabled, accessing their session without authentication. This is similar to CVE-2017-12164, but requires more difficult conditions to exploit.
- Vendors
- gnome
- Products
- gnome display manager
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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