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ghsa-qrj9-jg63-p8hg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:03

Modified

2022-05-24 19:03

Severity ?

7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients. This flaw allows an attacker to take control of an X application by impersonating the server it is expecting to connect to.

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CVE-2020-25697 (GCVE-0-2020-25697)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-05-26 12:08

Modified

2024-08-04 15:40

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-306

Summary

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients. This flaw allows an attacker to take control of an X application by impersonating the server it is expecting to connect to.

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	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	xorg-x11-server	Version: All

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