Vulnerabilites related to The Gnome Project - gnome-shell
cve-2019-3820
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-02-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
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.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.htmlvendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.htmlvendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Gnome Project gnome-shell Version: since 3.15.91
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