Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1709

Title: Gnome Gdm Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1709.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jun 14, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1709: GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.32.2, when glib 2.28 is used, enables execution of a web browser with the uid of the gdm account, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving the x-scheme-handler/http MIME type.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 2

Reference Links

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44797 http://secunia.com/advisories/44808 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d13dd72531599ab7e4c747db3b58a8c17753e08d http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44797 http://secunia.com/advisories/44808 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48084 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709139 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8643655

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1709 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 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 14, 2011 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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.