A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in gdm3 up to 3.14.1. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Screen Lock. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

The weakness was disclosed 11/05/2019. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-1000002 since 06/02/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 219475 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-1000002), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.14.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (219475). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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