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CVE-2020-25697

7.0 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.0) in x.org x server. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server due to a lack of authentication for X11 clients. This flaw allows an attacker to take control of an X application by impersonating the server it is expecting to connect to.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 24% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-306
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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