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CVE-2020-25697 A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients

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 products and versions

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
xorg-x11-server	Versions not published

References

[oss-security] 20201109 The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11 www.openwall.com
[mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar lists.apache.org
seclists.org seclists.org
bugzilla.redhat.com bugzilla.redhat.com

Timeline

Published May 26, 2021
Last modified August 4, 2024

The 21 CVEs of xorg-x11-server →

CVE-2023-0494 A vulnerability was found in X.Org 7.8 High CVE-2022-46343 A vulnerability was found in X.Org 8.8 High CVE-2022-46344 A vulnerability was found in X.Org Not rated CVE-2022-46342 A vulnerability was found in X.Org 8.8 High

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CVE-2020-25697 A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients

Description

Affected products and versions

References

Timeline

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