Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-25697

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients. This flaw allows an attacker to take control of an...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xtrans (SUSE-SU-2023:3190-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE-SU-2023:3190-1 Security update for xtrans

This update for xtrans fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-25697: Fixed local privilege escalation via TRANSABSTRACT on the client side bsc1178613...

SUSE-SU-2023:3189-1 Security update for xtrans

This update for xtrans fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-25697: Fixed local privilege escalation via TRANSABSTRACT on the client side bsc1178613...

CVE-2020-25697

CVE-2020-25697 is a local privilege-escalation flaw in the X.org X11 server caused by a lack of authentication for X11 clients. Affected component is the Xorg-x11-server (via the TRANS_ABSTRACT/client handling on the server side). Exploitation would enable an attacker with local access to imperso...