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CVE-2016-1000002 json

gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

published 2019-11-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1011

cvss
2.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

gdm3 3.14.2 and possibly later has an information leak before screen lock

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1000002 updated cvss 2.4

gdm: Information leak before screen lock

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gdm
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gdm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gdm, gdm-libs, gdm-plugin-smartcard, gdm-plugin-fingerprint, gdm-user-switch-applet
    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

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-1000002 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 2.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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