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CVE-2015-7496
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2015-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
- Gnome Display Manager: through 3.18.0
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.news
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172328.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2128
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032
- https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.18/gdm-3.18.2.news
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