Medium severity · published Dec 23, 2016
CVE-2016-2312
Turning all screens off in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker while the lock screen is shown can result in the screen being unlocked when turning a screen on again
6.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Turning all screens off in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker while the lock screen is shown can result in the screen being unlocked when turning a screen on again.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
22; 23 · source: NVD
KS
Kscreenlocker · Kde
through 5.5.4 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
PL
Plasma-workspace · Kde
through 5.4.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2312
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2312
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177454.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177557.html
Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358125
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964548
Vendor Advisory
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt
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