CVE-2015-7496

GNOME Display Manager <3.18.2 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8

Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 23
gnome/gnome_display_manager < 3.18.0
Published Nov 24, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026