6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
3.7 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
8.9%
Marcus Meissner discovered a race condition in gdm’s handling of the
~/.ICEauthority file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this
to become the owner of an arbitrary file in the system. When getting
control over automatically executed scripts (like cron jobs), the
attacker could eventually leverage this flaw to execute arbitrary
commands with root privileges.