6.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
34.9%
Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup
tool when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker
able to cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM
into launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | gdm3 | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | gdm3-dbgsym | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | gir1.2-gdm-1.0 | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | libgdm-dev | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | libgdm1 | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | libgdm1-dbgsym | < 3.38.1-2ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | gdm3 | < 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | gdm3-dbgsym | < 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | gir1.2-gdm-1.0 | < 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | libgdm-dev | < 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 | UNKNOWN |
6.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
34.9%