CVE-2021-20315 | BDVDB-2026-170259 Detail

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A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled. This flaw allows a physical attacker who has access to a locked system to kill existing applications and start new ones as the locked user, even if the session is still locked.

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History#

1. Version 12022-02-18Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-03Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.