CVE-2023-43090 (GCVE-0-2023-43090)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-22 05:02 – Updated: 2024-08-02 19:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Gnome-shell: screenshot tool allows viewing open windows when session is locked
Summary
A vulnerability was found in GNOME Shell. GNOME Shell's lock screen allows an unauthenticated local user to view windows of the locked desktop session by using keyboard shortcuts to unlock the restricted functionality of the screenshot tool.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-19 17:28 UTC
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43090 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239087 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issu… | |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merg… |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Affected:
0 , < 42.*
(custom)
Affected: 43.0 , < 43.9 (custom) Affected: 44.0 , < 44.5 (custom) |
||||
| gnome | gnome-shell |
Unknown:
-
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-shell:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2023-09-15 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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