CVE-2020-25697

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 High 7
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-25697
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2021-05-26T13:15:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T23:40:41
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-306 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/306.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/09/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/105 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895295 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25697
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25697
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-04-04 00:39:41 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 03:00:34 2021-05-26T13:15Z 2021-05-26T13:15:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 03:00:34 2022-03-31T16:57:20 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 03:00:34 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-13 00:12:38 2023-02-12T23:40:41 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 00:12:38 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated