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low 2.1

CVE-2003-1294 json

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) dr…

published 2003-12-31 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-1284

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Patch / fix

  • xscreensaver Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-1294

  • xscreensaver RHEL 3 1:4.10-20

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0498

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-1294 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 xscreensaver 4.10-20 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 xscreensaver 4.10-20 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 xscreensaver 4.10-20 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 xscreensaver 4.10-20
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0498

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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