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CVE-2021-20315 A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the…

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A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start new ones as the locked user, even if the session is still locked.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
gnome-shell Versions not published

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