CVE-2002-1160

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.

The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Linux

First reported 22 years ago

2003-02-19 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:24:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 7.1

7.1

Red Hat Linux 7.2

7.2

Red Hat Linux 7.3

7.3

Red Hat Linux 8.0

8.0

References

CLA-2003:693

20021214 BDT_AV200212140001: Insecure default: Using pam_xauth for su from sh-utils package

55760

linux-pamxauth-gain-privileges(11254)

Vendor Advisory

VU#911505

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

MDKSA-2003:017

RHSA-2003:028

RHSA-2003:035

6753

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