Suckless slock 0.9 screen access control

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A vulnerability was found in Suckless slock 0.9. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component screen. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

slock 0.9 does not properly handle the XRaiseWindow event when the screen is locked, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by pressing a button, which reveals the desktop and active windows.

The weakness was presented 07/12/2012 with Gentoo (Website). The advisory is shared at hg.suckless.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-1620 since 03/12/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 79963 (GLSA-201412-10 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (74666) and Tenable (79963). See 57046 and 60469 for similar entries.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

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Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 79963
Nessus Name: GLSA-201412-10 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012
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OpenVAS ID: 864655
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for ImageMagick FEDORA-2012-11746
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Recommended: Upgrade
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04/06/2012 +25 days 🔍
07/12/2012 +97 days 🔍
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12/11/2014 +882 days 🔍
12/15/2014 +4 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +98 days 🔍
02/18/2019 +1428 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: hg.suckless.org
Organization: Gentoo
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-1620 (🔍)
X-Force: 74666
SecurityFocus: 52922 - slock 'XRaiseWindow()' Local Security Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 48700
OSVDB: 81035

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 02/18/2019 10:30
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (69), 02/18/2019 10:30 (2)
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