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CVE-2007-3920
GNOME screensaver 2.20 in Ubuntu 7.10, when used with Compiz, does not properly reserve input focus, which allows attackers with physical…
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
GNOME screensaver 2.20 in Ubuntu 7.10, when used with Compiz, does not properly reserve input focus, which allows attackers with physical access to take control of the session after entering an Alt-Tab sequence, a related issue to CVE-2007-3069.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363061 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10192 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0956 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-537-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357071 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 30715 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- gnomescreensaver-compiz-security-bypass(37410) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-537-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0930 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 26188 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0485 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 27381 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28627 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30329 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-3904 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-3920)Record last updated .