CVE-2017-12164

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 Medium 6.4
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-12164
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-07-26T16:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:22:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-665 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/665.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 6.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • PHYSICAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.4
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 0.5
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/ff98b28 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12164 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12164
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12164
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:12:29 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 10:32:01 2018-07-26T16:29Z 2018-07-26T16:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 10:32:01 2019-10-09T23:22:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 10:32:01 Modified Vulnerability Status updated