CVE record · CVE-2021-3982

gnome-shell: Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0029 · 21st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 29 Apr 2022, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given gnome-shell
  • affected gnome-shell downstream versions using CAP_SYS_NICE
Identifiers
CVE-2021-3982
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-273
Published
29 Apr 2022
Updated
3 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0029, the 21st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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