CVE-2020-25697

EPSS 0.3%CWE-306

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 May 2021Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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

n/a · xorg-x11-server

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3