CVE-2021-20315

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    CVE-2021-20315

    Published: 18 Feb 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3a060d755dc2bee48883d39d3bf7ce79c4889e5d

    Affected versions

    3.32.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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