CVE-2007-3283

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

GNOME XScreenSaver in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 before 20070417, when root is logged into the console, does not automatically lock the screen after a session has been inactive, which might allow physically proximate attackers to access the console.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8.0, 9.0

References

http://osvdb.org/36586
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101338-1
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2037
http://osvdb.org/36586
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101338-1
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2037

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