CVE-2017-2626

medium

Description

It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.

References

https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libICE/commit/?id=ff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2626

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/14/3

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00022.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-07-27

Updated: 2023-02-12

Type: CWE-331

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM