CVE-2013-4394
Published Oct 28, 2013
Last updated 3 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority (PKLA) is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension (XKB) layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors involving "special and control characters."
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.9
- Impact score
- 9.5
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-276
Configurations
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