CVE-2023-1393

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

30/03/2023

Last modified:

29/08/2025

Description

A flaw was found in X.Org Server Overlay Window. A Use-After-Free may lead to local privilege escalation. If a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window (aka COW), the Xserver would leave a dangling pointer to that window in the CompScreen structure, which will trigger a use-after-free later.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server::::::::		21.1.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*

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CVE-2023-1393

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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