CVE-2015-7496: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 3.18.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by holding the Escape key.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only
• Gnome Gnome Display Manager: up to and including 3.18.0

Published 2015-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.