Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3982 - Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in Gnome Gnome-Shell
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |