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A flaw was found in GDM in versions prior to 3.38.2.1. A...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A flaw was found in GDM in versions prior to 3.38.2.1. A race condition in the handling of session shutdown makes it possible to bypass the lock screen for a user that has autologin enabled, accessing their session without authentication. This is similar to CVE-2017-12164, but requires more difficult conditions to exploit.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 28, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.069%
(32nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-27837

GHSA ID

GHSA-xpm4-75c2-wrgc

Source code

No known source code

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