Vulnerability in Xfree86 Project Xfce

CVE-2000-1060

The default configuration of XFCE 3.5.1 bypasses the Xauthority access control mechanism with an "xhost + localhost" command in the xinitrc program, which allows local users to sniff X Windows traffic and gain privileges.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Xfree86_project Xfce — versions 3.5.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)