medium6.3
CVE-2020-28049
An issue was discovered in SDDM before 0.19.0.
Impact
An issue was discovered in SDDM before 0.19.0. It incorrectly starts the X server in a way that - for a short time period - allows local unprivileged users to create a connection to the X server without providing proper authentication. A local attacker can thus access X server display contents and, for example, intercept keystrokes or access the clipboard. This is caused by a race condition during Xauthority file creation.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Sddm Project | Sddm | before 0.19.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.1, 15.2 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 9.0, 10.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 33 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00031.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-28049
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/v0.19.0/ChangeLog
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GT3EX5NSQJJAKY63ENSMEDX6NYZLYY3S/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-02
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4783
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00031.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-28049
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/v0.19.0/ChangeLog
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GT3EX5NSQJJAKY63ENSMEDX6NYZLYY3S/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-02
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4783