CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1160

7.2 HIGH Published 2003-02-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-02-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 7.1 • redhat linux 7.2 • redhat linux 7.3 • redhat linux 8.0

References