CVE-2017-2625

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2625
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2625.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-2625
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (3)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (3)
Published
2018-07-27T18:29:00Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:23Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_server"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages