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CVE-2013-7273

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7273 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) versions 3.4.1 and earlier. When the disable-user-list option is enabled, a local user can prevent logins by repeatedly pressing the cancel button after entering a username. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.1) due to its local attack vector and limited impact, primarily causing a temporary denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome_display_manager:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-7273Low

gdm: local DoS possible when cancelling and disable-user-list=true when fallback greeter is used

Jul 30, 2012

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/10
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/16