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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.19.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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