CVE-2010-2387: Gnome Display Manager

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.20.x before 2.20.11, when GDM debug is enabled, logs the user password when it contains invalid UTF8 encoded characters, which might allow local users to gain privileges by reading the information from syslog logs.

Affected products

• Gnome Gnome Display Manager: version 2.20.0 only; version 2.20.1 only; version 2.20.2 only; version 2.20.3 only; version 2.20.4 only; version 2.20.5 only; …

Published 2012-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.