CVE-2013-7220

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-11-14
Bugzilla:
1030431: CVE-2013-7220 gnome-shell: blind command execution via activities search keyboard focus

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

js/ui/screenShield.js in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.8 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation with the keyboard focus on the Activities search.

Find out more about CVE-2013-7220 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.4
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gnome-shell Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank M.Schwarz of resellerdesktop.de for reporting this issue.

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