XAUTHORITY Environment Variable Not Set Vulnerability in FreeNX

CVE-2005-0579 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to access the X server without X authentication.

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