Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-2697

Title: Gnome Gdm Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-2697.

CWE Category CWE-287

Published Date Sep 04, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-2697: The Red Hat build script for the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) before 2.16.0-56 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 omits TCP Wrapper support, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via XDMCP connections, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5079.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/36553 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9586 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html http://secunia.com/advisories/36553 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36219 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239818 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9586 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-2697 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.

September 04, 2009 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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.