CVE-2020-25697
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 26, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2020
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
xorg-x11-servern/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20201109 The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11mailing-list
- [mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jarmailing-list
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295
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