Gnome Display Manager vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product273 versions
The short answer

Gnome Display Manager is made by Gnome. We track 10 published vulnerabilities in it, across 273 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Gnome Display Manager, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Gnome Display Manager vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Gnome Display Manager's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Gnome Display Manager 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.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 1.1%

    gdm3 versions before 3.36.2 or 3.38.2 would start gnome-initial-setup if gdm3 can't contact the accountservice service via dbus in a timely manner; on Ubuntu (and potentially derivatives) this could be be chained...

    CVSS6.8Published10 Nov 2020
  2. 0.5%

    gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

    CVSS2.4Published5 Nov 2019
  3. 0.5%

    The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence...

    CVSS7.8Published14 Aug 2018
  4. 0.5%

    vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.20.x before 2.20.11, when GDM debug is enabled, logs the user password when it contains invalid UTF8 encoded characters, which might allow local users to...

    CVSS1.9Published21 Dec 2012
  5. 0.5%

    A vulnerability was discovered in gdm before 3.31.4.

    CVSS6.4Published6 Feb 2019
  6. 0.4%

    GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.

    CVSS7.2Published24 Nov 2015
  7. 0.4%

    A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin.

    CVSS6.4Published26 Jul 2018
  8. 0.4%

    GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

    CVSS6.9Published10 Sep 2013
  9. 0.4%

    GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 3.4.1 and earlier, when disable-user-list is set to true, allows local users to cause a denial of service (unable to login) by pressing the cancel button after entering a user name.

    CVSS2.1Published29 Apr 2014
  10. 0.2%

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

    CVSS6.4Published28 Dec 2020
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We track 10 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Gnome Display Manager, across 273 versions.

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