CVE-2015-1319

low
Published 2015-09-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The Unity Settings Daemon before 14.04.0+14.04.20150825-0ubuntu2 and 15.04.x before 15.04.1+15.04.20150408-0ubuntu1.2 does not properly detect if the screen is locked, which allows physically proximate attackers to mount removable media while the screen is locked as demonstrated by inserting a USB thumb drive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.