CVE-2012-1620

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

slock 0.9 does not properly handle the XRaiseWindow event when the screen is locked, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by pressing a button, which reveals the desktop and active windows.

slock 0.9 does not properly handle the XRaiseWindow event when the screen is locked, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by pressing a button, which reveals the desktop and active windows.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-12 19:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:31:00

Affected Software

suckless slock 0.9

0.9

References

http://hg.suckless.org/slock/rev/891a4984aba6

Exploit, Patch

48700

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20120405 CVE Request: slock-0.9 displays modal box after locking

Exploit

[oss-security] 20120405 Re: CVE Request: slock-0.9 displays modal box after locking

81035

52922

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401645

Exploit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786310

slock-xraisewindow-sec-bypass(74666)

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