CVE-2017-12164

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    CVE-2017-12164

    Published: 26 Jul 2018Last Modified: 15 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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 their screen.

    References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- fc04ebbe19f0944f7732e78fa55ccc59ea64e853
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.24.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High