A vulnerability was found in Host (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component X Window Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description is: "The X Windows service is running."

The weakness was published 01/01/1999. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0623. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as highly functional.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Vulnerability Center (SBV-6029†). Similar entries are available at VDB-14393, VDB-14392, VDB-14391 and VDB-14389. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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