CVE-2016-2312 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker, affecting products like Fedora and openSUSE. The flaw allows an attacker to bypass the lock screen by turning off all displays while the lock screen is active, then turning a screen back on, resulting in an unlocked session. This local attack vector (AV:P) has high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:kscreenlocker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 5.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:plasma-workspace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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