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CVE-2017-12164
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-26T16:29:00.327 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:02:48.210

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.

Affected products

gnome — gnome_display_manager

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References

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