CVE-2020-25697

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25697
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-26 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-306

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X.org X Server - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685a... MISC lists.apache.org
oss-sec: The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11 MISC seclists.org
1895295 – (CVE-2020-25697) CVE-2020-25697 xorg-x11-server: local privilege escalation MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-security - The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11 MLIST www.openwall.com
Invalid Bug ID MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-security - The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11 MISC www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 754248 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xtrans (SUSE-SU-2023:3190-1)
  • 754249 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xtrans (SUSE-SU-2023:3189-1)

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