CVE-2020-25697 (GCVE-0-2020-25697)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-26 12:08
Modified
2024-08-04 15:40
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version
n/a xorg-x11-server Version: All
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