CVE-2008-0887: Gnome Screensaver

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gnome-screensaver before 2.22.1, when a remote authentication server is enabled, crashes upon an unlock attempt during a network outage, which allows physically proximate attackers to gain access to the locked session, a related issue to CVE-2007-1859.

Affected products

• Gnome Screensaver: up to and including 2.20.0

Published 2008-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.