CVE-2020-28049 - log back

CVE-2020-28049 edited at 10 Nov 2020 21:20:44
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.
- 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.
CVE-2020-28049 edited at 09 Nov 2020 20:39:36
Severity
- Unknown
+ Medium
Remote
- Unknown
+ Local
Type
- Unknown
+ 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.
References
+ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/2
+ https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/be202f533ab98a684c6a007e8d5b4357846bc222
Notes
CVE-2020-28049 created at 09 Nov 2020 20:37:53