CVE-2020-28049 log
| Source |
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| Severity | Medium |
| Remote | No |
| Type | Privilege escalation |
| Description | A local privilege escalation has been discovered in the sddm display manager < 0.19.0. If the auth file is empty, X allows any local application (= any user on the system) to connect. This is currently the case until X wrote the display number to sddm and sddm used that to write the entry into the file. |
| Group | Package | Affected | Fixed | Severity | Status | Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVG-1266 | sddm | 0.18.1-3 | 0.19.0-1 | Medium | Fixed |
| Date | Advisory | Group | Package | Severity | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2020 | ASA-202011-8 | AVG-1266 | sddm | Medium | privilege escalation |
| References |
|---|
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/2 https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/be202f533ab98a684c6a007e8d5b4357846bc222 |