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CVE-2021-20315

n/a / gnome-shell PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n/a / gnome-shellaffected gnome-shell 3.32.2-40.el8

CWE

CWE-667

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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