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CVE-2015-1319

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2015-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Unity Settings Daemon before 14.04.0+14.04.20150825-0ubuntu2 and 15.04.x before 15.04.1+15.04.20150408-0ubuntu1.2 does not properly detect if the screen is locked, which allows physically proximate attackers to mount removable media while the screen is locked as demonstrated by inserting a USB thumb drive.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.04

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2741-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/unity/%2Bbug/1438870
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2741-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/unity/%2Bbug/1438870

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