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CVE-2018-20681

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20681 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting mate-screensaver in the MATE Desktop Environment, allowing physically proximate attackers to bypass the screensaver. By manipulating external display connections, an attacker can view screen content and potentially interact with applications, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current exploitation risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.20.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mate-desktop:mate-screensaver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0058 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 1,531 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/152
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/155
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/170
Third Party Advisory
github.com / mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/pull/167
PatchThird Party Advisory