CVE-2021-3567

HIGH

Caribou < 0.4.21 - Screen-Lock Bypass via Input Mechanism Regression

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Caribou due to a regression of CVE-2020-25712 fix. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass screen-locking applications that leverage Caribou as an input mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1962836

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
gnome/caribou < 0.4.21
Published Mar 25, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026