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CVE-2020-28049

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28049 is a race condition vulnerability in SDDM versions prior to 0.19.0, affecting Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and SDDM Project distributions. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.3) allows a local, unprivileged attacker to temporarily connect to the X server without authentication, potentially intercepting keystrokes or accessing clipboard data due to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

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 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 1,297 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 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / sddm/sddm/blob/v0.19.0/ChangeLog
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / sddm/sddm/releases
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GT3EX5NSQJJAKY63ENSMEDX6NYZLYY3S
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202402-02
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4783
Third Party Advisory