CVE-2019-3820

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the gnome-shell lock screen since version 3.15.91 did not properly restrict all contextual actions. An attacker with physical access to a locked workstation could invoke certain keyboard shortcuts, and potentially other actions.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-285 CWE-287

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Gnome Project	gnome-shell	since 3.15.91

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 6, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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