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CVE-2021-31523
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-04-21T19:15:35.877 · Last modified 2026-06-17T03:51:57.447

Summary

The Debian xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 package for XScreenSaver has cap_net_raw enabled for the /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/sonar file, which allows local users to gain privileges because this is arguably incompatible with the design of the Mesa 3D Graphics library dependency.

Affected products

xscreensaver_project — xscreensaver

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