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CVE-2008-6514

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-6514 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Expo plugin of Compiz Fusion 0.7.8. An attacker with physical access could bypass the screen saver and access the locked desktop by utilizing Expo mouse shortcuts. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating moderate severity due to the high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring physical access and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:compiz:compiz_fusion:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-6514Moderate

compiz-fusion: Possible locked desktop access by using Expo plugin mouse shortcuts

Jul 9, 2008

References

bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
gitweb.compiz-fusion.org
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/compiz-fusion-plugins-main/+bug/247088
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/33077
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34465
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47172
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00860.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00878.html
securityfocus.com / bid/32712
Patch