Gnome-Shell vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Gnome-Shell is made by Gnome. We track 11 published vulnerabilities in it, across 288 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Gnome-Shell, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Gnome-Shell's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Gnome-Shell flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 2.9%CVE-2017-8288High
gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen.
- 1.3%CVE-2012-4427Medium
The gnome-shell plugin 3.4.1 in GNOME allows remote attackers to force the download and installation of arbitrary extensions from extensions.gnome.org via a crafted web page.
- 0.6%CVE-2020-17489Medium
An issue was discovered in certain configurations of GNOME gnome-shell through 3.36.4.
- 0.5%CVE-2019-3820Medium
It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions.
- 0.5%CVE-2014-7300High
GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary...
- 0.4%CVE-2013-7220Medium
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...
- 0.4%CVE-2013-7221Medium
The automatic screen lock functionality in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.10 does not prevent access to the "Enter a Command" dialog, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands...
- 0.3%CVE-2010-4000Medium
gnome-shell in GNOME Shell 2.31.5 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.
- 0.3%CVE-2023-43090Medium
A vulnerability was found in GNOME Shell.
- 0.3%CVE-2021-3982Medium
Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue.
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gnome-shell 3.22 through 3.24.1 mishandles extensions that fail to reload, which can lead to leaving extensions enabled in the lock screen. With these extensions, a bystander could launch applications (but not interact with them), see information from the extensions (e.g., what applications you have opened or what music you were playing), or even execute arbitrary commands. It all depends on what extensions a user has enabled. The problem is caused by lack of exception handling in js/ui/extensionSystem.js.
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We track 11 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Gnome-Shell, across 288 versions.
None of Gnome-Shell's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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