CVE-2017-12164

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12164
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12164.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12164
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-07-26T16:29:00.327Z
Modified
2026-07-08T11:35:00.567867Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gnome/gdm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome/gdm
Events
Introduced
fc04ebbe19f0944f7732e78fa55ccc59ea64e853
Last affected
fc04ebbe19f0944f7732e78fa55ccc59ea64e853
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.24.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.24.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12164.json"

Git / gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/gdm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/gdm
Events
Introduced
fc04ebbe19f0944f7732e78fa55ccc59ea64e853
Last affected
fc04ebbe19f0944f7732e78fa55ccc59ea64e853
Fixed
ff98b28
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.24.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.24.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12164.json"