Gnome-shell

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Gnome-shell, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 11 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Gnome-shell.

• CVE-2023-43090Gnome-shell: screenshot tool allows viewing open windows when session is locked5.5Sep 22, 2023
• CVE-2021-3982Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is cur...5.5Apr 29, 2022
• CVE-2021-20315A 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 al...6.1Feb 18, 2022
• CVE-2020-17489An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4. When logging out of an account, the password box from the login dialog reappears with the password still visib...4.3Aug 11, 2020
• CVE-2019-3820It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke cert...4.3Feb 6, 2019
• CVE-2017-8288gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applicati...8.1Apr 27, 2017
• CVE-2014-7300GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to ...7.2Dec 25, 2014
• CVE-2013-7220js/ui/screenShield.js in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.8 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation with the keyboard focus...4.6Apr 29, 2014
• CVE-2013-7221The automatic screen lock functionality in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.10 does not prevent access to the "Enter a Command" dialog, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute ...4.6Apr 29, 2014
• CVE-2012-4427The gnome-shell plugin 3.4.1 in GNOME allows remote attackers to force the download and installation of arbitrary extensions from extensions.gnome.org via a crafted web page.6.8Oct 1, 2012
• CVE-2010-4000gnome-shell in GNOME Shell 2.31.5 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working di...6.9Nov 5, 2010