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CVE-2005-0579

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to access the X server without X authentication.

Affected products

• Freenx: 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5 (+2)

References

• http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2005-February/000734.html
• http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html
• http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2005-February/000734.html
• http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html

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