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CVE-2017-10972

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-10972 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the X.Org X Server before version 2017-06-19, stemming from uninitialized data in endianness conversion during XEvent handling. An authenticated malicious user could exploit this flaw to access potentially privileged data from the X server. The attack requires network access and low privileges, but its impact is high confidentiality with no integrity or availability concerns. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.19.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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, 0.1 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xorg-x11-server
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xorg-x11-server
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: xorg-x11-server

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-10972Moderate

xorg-x11-server: Unitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling

Jun 19, 2017

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
cgit.freedesktop.org / xorg/xserver/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3905
securityfocus.com / bid/99543
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry