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CVE-2011-0727
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1)…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.38%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- canonical
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- USN-1099-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 43714 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1025264 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-4351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 43854 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0847 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0787 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- display-manager-priv-escalation(66377) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0911 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- DSA-2205 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0395 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 47063 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [gdm-list] 20110328 GDM 2.32.1 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688323 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.1.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 44021 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-4335 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0797 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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)
- 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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