6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
48.1%
Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | xscreensaver | < 4.15 | xscreensaver_4.15_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | xscreensaver | < 4.15 | xscreensaver_4.15_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | xscreensaver | < 4.15 | xscreensaver_4.15_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | xscreensaver | < 4.15 | xscreensaver_4.15_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | xscreensaver | < 4.15 | xscreensaver_4.15_all.deb |