gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applications (but not interact with them), see information from the extensions (e.g., what applications you have opened or what music you were playing), or even execute arbitrary commands. It all depends on what extensions a user has enabled. The problem is caused by lack of exception handling in js/ui/extensionSystem.js.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.300Z

Reserved: 2017-04-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8288

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-04-27T00:59:00.350

Modified: 2017-05-10T16:11:15.293

Link: CVE-2017-8288

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-04-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8288 - Bugzilla