Vulnerability CVE-2021-20315


Published: 2022-02-18

Description:
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.

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006285

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