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CVE-2024-0409

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-0409 is a high-severity flaw in the X.Org server, specifically impacting Xephyr and Xwayland, as well as products like Fedora, Red Hat, and TigerVNC. The vulnerability stems from incorrect private type usage during cursor creation, leading to an overwrite of the XSELINUX context. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local vulnerability allows an attacker with low privileges to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tigervnc:tigervnc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 21.1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 23.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:x.org:xwayland:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17431-16823Fixed in: 1.20.10-12
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19982-17086Fixed in: 1.20.10-12
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-12 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.20.10-12
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 xorg-x11-server 1.20.10-15 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.20.10-12
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 1.20.10-12
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 1.20.10-12
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.4-27.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-0:21.1.3-15.el8
View patch
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 9Fixed in: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-0:22.1.9-5.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

Vendor Advisories (5)

microsoft2024-Sep/CVE-2024-0409

CVE-2024-0409

Sep 10, 2024
denollm-deno-b67a3af2ce0be075CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
kerasllm-keras-7d8c31fee70361dcCRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-0409Important

xorg-x11-server: SELinux context corruption

Jan 16, 2024
microsoft2024-Jan/CVE-2024-0409Important

Xorg-x11-server: selinux context corruption

Jan 9, 2024

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00016.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/5J4H7CH565ALSZZYKOJFYDA5KFLG6NUK
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/EJBMCWQ54R6ZL3MYU2D2JBW6JMZL7BQW
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/IZ75X54CN4IFYMIV7OK3JVZ57FHQIGIC
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-30
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240307-0006
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:0320
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2169
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2170
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2995
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2996
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-0409
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory