Vulnerability in Xscreensaver
CVE-2003-0885
Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
EPSS: 0.013 (67.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Xscreensaver — versions 4.14
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)