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CVE-2023-5380

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5380 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the xorg-x11-server, affecting Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, and X.Org. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.7) requires a very specific and legacy multi-screen configuration (Zaphod mode) and a precise sequence of actions to trigger a server crash. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 21.1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 23.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xwayland:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 89th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-10 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.20.10-10
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.11-24.el9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: tigervnc-0:1.8.0-26.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: tigervnc-0:1.13.1-8.el9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.11-22.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: tigervnc-0:1.13.1-8.el8
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: xorg-x11-server

Vendor Advisories (4)

denollm-deno-650ac71876afb4f8CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
kerasllm-keras-d13bbd8768a57997CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
redhatCVE-2023-5380Moderate

xorg-x11-server: Use-after-free bug in DestroyWindow

Oct 25, 2023
microsoft2023-Oct/CVE-2023-5380Moderate

Xorg-x11-server: use-after-free bug in destroywindow

Oct 10, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00036.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/2WS5E7H4A5J3U5YBCTMRPQVGWK5LVH7D
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/3RK66CXMXO3PCPDU3GDY5FK4UYHUXQJT
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/AKKIE626TZOOPD533EYN47J4RFNHZVOP
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/HO2Q2NP6R62ZRQQG3XQ4AXUT7J2EKKKY
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/SN6KV4XGQJRVAOSM5C3CWMVAXO53COIP
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/TJXNI4BXURC2BKPNAHFJK3C5ZETB7PER
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-30
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20231130-0004
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5534
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:7428
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2169
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2298
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2995
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:3067
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-5380
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
lists.x.org / archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html
PatchVendor Advisory