XWayland Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2015-3164 · LOW Severity

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

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.

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