CVE-2021-3982CWE-273

Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue

published April 29, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00289 · 20.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-273 · Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
Published
2022-04-29T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 APR 00:00Z
    Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue
    cvelistv5