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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2004-2655 json

rdesktop 1.3.1 with xscreensaver 4.14, and possibly other versions, when running on Fedora and possibly other platforms, does not release t…

published 2004-12-31 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2645

cvss
5.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

rdesktop 1.3.1 with xscreensaver 4.14, and possibly other versions, when running on Fedora and possibly other platforms, does not release the keyboard focus when xscreensaver starts, which causes the password to be entered into the active window when the user unlocks the screen.

Patch / fix

  • xscreensaver Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.18-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2655

  • 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-2004-2655 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

2.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.4 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.