{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2020-11-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "gdm: inability to timely contact accountservice via dbus leads gnome-initial-setup to creation of account with admin privileges",
    "id" : "1901994",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901994"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-636",
  "details" : [ "gdm3 versions before 3.36.2 or 3.38.2 would start gnome-initial-setup if gdm3 can't contact the accountservice service via dbus in a timely manner; on Ubuntu (and potentially derivatives) this could be be chained with an additional issue that could allow a local user to create a new privileged account.", "A vulnerability was found in GDM. If gdm can't contact the AccountService service via DBus in a timely manner it would default to assume there are no existing users and would allow the attacker to create a new user with high privileges." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1586",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "gdm-1:3.28.3-39.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "gdm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "gdm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "gdm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "gdm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16125\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16125\nhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/642" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-16125",
  "csaw" : false
}