ghsa-cvmx-9h9q-8hmw
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:36
Modified
2022-05-13 01:36
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-2625"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-331"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-07-27T18:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users\u0027 sessions.",
  "id": "GHSA-cvmx-9h9q-8hmw",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:36:52Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:36:52Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2625"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2625"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1424987"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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