Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0887

Title: Gnome Screensaver

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0887.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 06, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.7 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0887: gnome-screensaver before 2.22.1, when a remote authentication server is enabled, crashes upon an unlock attempt during a network outage, which allows physically proximate attackers to gain access to the locked session, a related issue to CVE-2007-1859.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/35531 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0197.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29595 http://secunia.com/advisories/29606 http://secunia.com/advisories/29742 http://secunia.com/advisories/29759 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/32691 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-12.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019749 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:132 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0218.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28575 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-669-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435773 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10813 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00163.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00206.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/35531 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0197.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29595 http://secunia.com/advisories/29606 http://secunia.com/advisories/29742 http://secunia.com/advisories/29759 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/32691 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-12.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1019749 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:132 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0218.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28575 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-669-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435773 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10813 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00163.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00206.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.7

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0887 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.

April 06, 2008 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.