Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1060

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 05:45:36

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The default configuration of XFCE 3.5.1 bypasses the Xauthority access control mechanism with an "xhost + localhost" command in the xinitrc program, which allows local users to sniff X Windows traffic and gain privileges.

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