CVE-2008-1692

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

Affected products

Eterm: 0.9.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127
http://secunia.com/advisories/29577
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473127
http://secunia.com/advisories/29577
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:222
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512

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