CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-25697
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306
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.
Affected configurations
• x.org x server
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory