CVE-2021-31523

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31523
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-31523.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-31523
Downstream
Published
2021-04-21T19:15:35.877Z
Modified
2026-03-13T04:53:28.801378Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The Debian xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 package for XScreenSaver has capnetraw enabled for the /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/sonar file, which allows local users to gain privileges because this is arguably incompatible with the design of the Mesa 3D Graphics library dependency.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.42+dfsg1-1"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-31523.json"