Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 26, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2017-12164
CVE-2017-12164
Description
A 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 another user' to unlock their screen.
Affected products
1- Range: 3.24.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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