CVE-2022-46340

A vulnerability was found in X.Org

High · published December 14, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs becuase the swap handler for the XTestFakeInput request of the XTest extension may corrupt the stack if GenericEvents with lengths larger than 32 bytes are sent through a the XTestFakeInput request. This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions. This issue does not affect systems where client and server use the same byte order.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02682 · 85.7th percentile
Published
2022-12-14T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 DEC 00:00Z
    A vulnerability was found in X.Org
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