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CVE-2015-8308

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• 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: 2017-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

LXDM before 0.5.2 did not start X server with -auth, which allows local users to bypass authentication with X connections.

Affected products

• Lxdm Project Lxdm: through 0.5.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/20/6
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284460
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/20/6
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284460

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