CVE-2015-8308

HIGH 7.8CVE-2015-8308 · Published 24/08/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-8308 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting lxdm (lxdm project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lxdm lxdm_project	`≤ 0.5.1`	No fix yet

LXDM before 0.5.2 did not start X server with -auth, which allows local users to bypass authentication with X connections.

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