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CVE-2013-7221

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 by leveraging an unattended workstation.

Affected products

• gnome-shell: through 3.9.92; 3.0.0, 3.0.0.1, 3.0.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1.3 (+53)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/8
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708313
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/js/ui/main.js?id=efdf1ff755943fba1f8a9aaeff77daa3ed338088
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/8
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708313
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/js/ui/main.js?id=efdf1ff755943fba1f8a9aaeff77daa3ed338088

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