Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 18, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-20315
CVE-2021-20315
Description
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.
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