FKIE_CVE-2002-1160
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2003-02-19 05:00 - Updated: 2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.
References
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"lastModified": "2025-04-03T01:03:51.193",
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