GSD-2020-25697

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients. This flaw allows an attacker to take control of an X application by impersonating the server it is expecting to connect to.
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