CVE-2017-2625CWE-331
It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys
Medium · published July 27, 2018
What it is
It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.0
- 6.5 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00534 · 44.2th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-331 · Insufficient Entropy
- Published
- 2018-07-27T18:00Z
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