CVE Database · CVE-2007-1859
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.41%
Published
May 2, 2007
Modified
Jun 16, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
XScreenSaver 4.10, when using a remote directory service for credentials, does not properly handle the results from the getpwuid function in drivers/lock.c when there is no network connectivity, which causes XScreenSaver to crash and unlock the screen and allows local users to bypass authentication.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (13)
References (20)