CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1060

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2000-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The default configuration of XFCE 3.5.1 bypasses the Xauthority access control mechanism with an "xhost + localhost" command in the xinitrc program, which allows local users to sniff X Windows traffic and gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• xfree86 project xfce 3.5.1

References