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CVE-2013-7220 json

js/ui/screenShield.js in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.8 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by le…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-7003

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

js/ui/screenShield.js in GNOME Shell (aka gnome-shell) before 3.8 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging an unattended workstation with the keyboard focus on the Activities search.

Patch / fix

  • gnome-shell Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.8.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7220

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-7220 updated cvss 4.4

gnome-shell: blind command execution via activities search keyboard focus

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gnome-shell, gnome-shell-browser-plugin
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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