medium6.1
CVE-2021-20315
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" GNOM…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnome | Gnome-Shell | before 3.32.2 |
| Centos | Stream | Version 8 |