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CVE-2011-1709

Date: June 14, 2011

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.32.2, when glib 2.28 is used, enables execution of a web browser with the uid of the gdm account, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving the x-scheme-handler/http MIME type.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44808
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1709
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1709
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084
http://secunia.com/advisories/44797
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1709

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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