CVE-2009-4642

2022-10-0316:24:04

mitre

www.cve.org

gnome-screensaver

session idle time

gnome-session

xfce desktop

physically proximate attackers

unattended workstation

screen locking

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

JSON

gnome-screensaver 2.26.1 relies on the gnome-session D-Bus interface to determine session idle time, even when an Xfce desktop such as Xubuntu or Mythbuntu is used, which allows physically proximate attackers to access an unattended workstation on which screen locking had been intended.