CVE-2023-43090

medium

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNOME Shell. GNOME Shell's lock screen allows an unauthenticated local user to view windows of the locked desktop session by using keyboard shortcuts to unlock the restricted functionality of the screenshot tool.

References

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239087

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43090

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2944

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6990

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-47511

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N