CVE-2017-12164 (GCVE-0-2017-12164)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
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CWE
Summary
A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.
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Sightings
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