CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Henne Vogelsang discovered that under certain PolicyKit configurations, GDM
could be made to launch a browser. A local attacker could exploit this to
gain access to files with the privileges of the gdm user. PolicyKit is not
configured in this manner in Ubuntu by default.