cve-2017-12164
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28Patch, Vendor Advisory
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GNOME gdm Version: 3.24.1
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