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CVE-2013-1940

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: none known
• Published: 2013-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
• X.Org-Xserver: through 1.13.3; 1.4.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102391.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/104089.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00015.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2661
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/3
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1803-1
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63353
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102391.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/104089.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00015.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2661
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/3

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