Vigil@nce - gnome-shell: privilege escalation via a locked session
July 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: privileged access/rights, user access/rights.
Provenance: physical access.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 06/05/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger actions in gnome-shell from the keyboard
when the session is locked, in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/gnome-shell-privilege-escalation-via-a-locked-session-29232