CVE-2018-20681 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting mate-screensaver in the MATE Desktop Environment, allowing physically proximate attackers to bypass the screensaver. By manipulating external display connections, an attacker can view screen content and potentially interact with applications, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current exploitation risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.20.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mate-desktop:mate-screensaver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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:N
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