Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3567 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Gnome Caribou

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
gnome
CWE-787

Summary

A flaw was found in Caribou due to a regression of CVE-2020-25712 fix. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass screen-locking applications that leverage Caribou as an input mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnome
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)