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CVE-2017-2626

Date: July 27, 2018

It was discovered that libICE before 1.0.9-8 used a weak entropy to generate keys. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw for session hijacking using the information available from the process list.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/14/3

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2626

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2626

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00022.html

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-2626

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2626

Url: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libICE/commit/?id=ff5e59f32255913bb1cdf51441b98c9107ae165b

Url: https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-2626

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-2626

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Insufficient Entropy

CWE-331

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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