The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2015-07-01T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:31.640Z

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-3164

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-07-01T14:59:07.267

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:27:35.843

Link: CVE-2015-3164

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-06-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3164 - Bugzilla