CVE-2011-1709
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.32.2, when glib 2.28 is used, enables execution of a web browser with the uid of the gdm account, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving the x-scheme-handler/http MIME type.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (38th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1709)
- Published
- June 14, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1709 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / gdm
- gnome / glib
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44797(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44808
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139(Patch)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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