Vigil@nce - GNOME Display Manager: privilege escalation via Initial Setup Tool
January 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 03/11/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via Initial Setup Tool of
GNOME Display Manager, in order to escalate his privileges.
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