Vulnerability in David Bagley Xlockmore
CVE-2013-4143
The (1) checkPasswd and (2) checkGroupXlockPasswds functions in xlockmore before 5.43 do not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an error by the crypt or dispcrypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors related to invalid salts.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (31.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 31.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- David Bagley Xlockmore — versions 5.24, 5.25, 5.26
References
- www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlock/xlockmore.README (Vendor Advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/6 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/8 (mailing-list)