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Gnome Display Manager: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Gnome Display Manager has 10 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs10
Last 12 months0
Critical0
Actively exploited0

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CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2020-27837Medium (6.4)0.23%—Dec 28, 2020
A flaw was found in GDM in versions prior to 3.38.2.1. A race condition in the handling of session shutdown makes it possible to bypass the lock screen for a user that has autologin enabled, accessing their session…
CVE-2020-16125Medium (6.8)1.1%—Nov 10, 2020
gdm3 versions before 3.36.2 or 3.38.2 would start gnome-initial-setup if gdm3 can't contact the accountservice service via dbus in a timely manner; on Ubuntu (and potentially derivatives) this could be be chained with…
CVE-2016-1000002Low (2.4)0.53%—Nov 5, 2019
gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock
CVE-2019-3825Medium (6.4)0.50%—Feb 6, 2019
A vulnerability was discovered in gdm before 3.31.4. When timed login is enabled in configuration, an attacker could bypass the lock screen by selecting the timed login user and waiting for the timer to expire, at which…
CVE-2018-14424High (7.8)0.53%—Aug 14, 2018
The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of…
CVE-2017-12164Medium (6.4)0.39%—Jul 26, 2018
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…
CVE-2015-7496High (7.2)0.41%—Nov 24, 2015
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
CVE-2013-7273Low (2.1)0.37%—Apr 29, 2014
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 3.4.1 and earlier, when disable-user-list is set to true, allows local users to cause a denial of service (unable to login) by pressing the cancel button after entering a user name.
CVE-2013-4169Medium (6.9)0.37%—Sep 10, 2013
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.
CVE-2010-2387Low (1.9)0.52%—Dec 21, 2012
vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.20.x before 2.20.11, when GDM debug is enabled, logs the user password when it contains invalid UTF8 encoded characters, which might allow local users to…

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