Vulnerability CVE-2019-3820


Published: 2019-02-06

Description:
It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions.

Type:

CWE-285

(Improper Authorization)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gnome -> Gnome-shell 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/

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