Gnome display manager

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Gnome display manager, a product in the consumer software space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 10 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Gnome display manager.

• CVE-2020-27837A flaw was found in GDM in versions prior to 3.38.2.1. A race condition in the handling of session shutdown makes it possible to bypass the lock screen for a user that has autologin enabled, access...6.4Dec 28, 2020
• CVE-2020-16125gdm3 would start gnome-initial-setup if it cannot contact accountservice7.2Nov 10, 2020
• CVE-2016-1000002gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock2.4Nov 5, 2019
• CVE-2019-3825A vulnerability was discovered in gdm before 3.31.4. When timed login is enabled in configuration, an attacker could bypass the lock screen by selecting the timed login user and waiting for the tim...6.3Feb 6, 2019
• CVE-2018-14424The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a special...7.8Aug 14, 2018
• CVE-2017-12164A 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 a...4.1Jul 26, 2018
• CVE-2015-7496GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.7.2Nov 24, 2015
• CVE-2013-7273GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 3.4.1 and earlier, when disable-user-list is set to true, allows local users to cause a denial of service (unable to login) by pressing the cancel button after entering ...2.1Apr 29, 2014
• CVE-2013-4169GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.6.9Sep 10, 2013
• CVE-2010-2387vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.20.x before 2.20.11, when GDM debug is enabled, logs the user password when it contains invalid UTF8 encoded characters, which might al...1.9Dec 21, 2012