Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.20.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
4.38% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371807
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-14665  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 1.20.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.3. An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges.

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