Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2013-1940

Public on 2013-05-13
Modified on 2014-09-16
Description

X.Org X server before 1.13.4 and 1.4.x before 1.14.1 does not properly restrict access to input events when adding a new hot-plug device, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading passwords from a tty.

Severity
Low
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
1.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 xorg-x11-server 2013-12-11 20:34 ALAS-2013-260

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N