Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-3920

Title: Compiz

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-3920.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 29, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-3920: GNOME screensaver 2.20 in Ubuntu 7.10, when used with Compiz, does not properly reserve input focus, which allows attackers with physical access to take control of the session after entering an Alt-Tab sequence, a related issue to CVE-2007-3069.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

compiz 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27381 http://secunia.com/advisories/28627 http://secunia.com/advisories/30329 http://secunia.com/advisories/30715 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0485.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26188 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-537-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-537-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357071 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363061 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37410 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10192 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00811.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00841.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27381 http://secunia.com/advisories/28627 http://secunia.com/advisories/30329 http://secunia.com/advisories/30715 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0485.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26188 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-537-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-537-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357071 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363061 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37410 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10192 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00811.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00841.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-3920 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 29, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.