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CVE-2008-1692

Date: April 7, 2008

Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-1692
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1692
http://secunia.com/advisories/29577
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-1692

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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