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CVE-2015-3164

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
01/07/2015
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.60 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
3.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.1.901:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.2.901:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.99.901:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.16.99.902:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xorg-server:1.17.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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