CVE-2013-4169: Gnome Display Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Affected products

• Gnome Gnome Display Manager: up to and including 2.21; version 0.7 only; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.13 only; …

Published 2013-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.