Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-7300

RCE

Title: Gnome Gnome-Shell RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-7300.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Dec 25, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-7300: GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.

Impacted Vendors

G
gnome 1

Reference Links

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/17 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0535.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737456 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a72dca361080ffc9f45ff90188a7cf013c3c4013 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=f02b007337e61436aaa0e81a86ad707b6d277378
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-2014-7300 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.