CVE-2015-8308 (GCVE-0-2015-8308)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
LXDM before 0.5.2 did not start X server with -auth, which allows local users to bypass authentication with X connections.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-10-07 00:00
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