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CVE-2017-2626 — It was discovered that libICE before 1

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.

CVSS
5.2 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.10% (top 73.20%)
CWE
CWE-331
Published
2018-07-27T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T14:02:06.904Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
XorglibICE1.0.9-8

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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