CVSS 3.0
6.4 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-12164
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-665, CWE-592
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnome:gnome_display_manager