CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2187
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306
Description
xscreensaver before 5.14 crashes during activation and leaves the screen unlocked when in Blank Only Mode and when DPMS is disabled, which allows local attackers to access resources without authentication.
Affected configurations
• xscreensaver project xscreensaver (< 5.14)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2187 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627382 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2187 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2187 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/17 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2187 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627382 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2187 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2187 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/17 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory