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.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00023.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00049.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3820 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/851 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3966-1/ Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-02-06T20:00:00

Updated: 2019-06-19T01:06:03

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-3820

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-02-06T20:29:00.290

Modified: 2021-09-29T14:24:38.163


Link: CVE-2019-3820

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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