CVE-2017-2625: Xorg libXdmcp

It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys.

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0053 · 45th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 27 Jul 2018, 18:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Xorg	libXdmcp	affected 1.1.2

Identifiers

CVE-2017-2625

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-331

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.5	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 27 Jul 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 vendor-advisorygentoo
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865 vendor-advisoryredhat
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919 vdb-entrysectrack
cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1f confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480 vdb-entrybid
www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html mailing-listmlist

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.