Vulnerability CVE-2015-7496
Published: 2015-11-24

Description:
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Gnome display manager 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.news
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