CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-31523
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The Debian xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 package for XScreenSaver has cap_net_raw enabled for the /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/sonar file, which allows local users to gain privileges because this is arguably incompatible with the design of the Mesa 3D Graphics library dependency.
Affected configurations
• xscreensaver project xscreensaver 5.42\+dfsg1-1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/17/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/17/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory