Information disclosure in Simone Rota Slim Simple Login Manager

CVE-2009-1756

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie (mcookie) on the command line when invoking xauth from (1) app.cpp and (2) switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.005 (37.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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