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CVE-2016-2312

23
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 1,530 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177454.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177557.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.kde.org / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.opensuse.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20160209-1.txt
Vendor Advisory