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.
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EUVD-2021-7740 | 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T17:37:23.718Z
Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-20315
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Status : Modified
Published: 2022-02-18T18:15:08.800
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:21.660
Link: CVE-2021-20315
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