CVE Database · CVE-2016-3100
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.40%
Published
Jul 13, 2016
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit
All weaponized →No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.
Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
kinit in KDE Frameworks before 5.23.0 uses weak permissions (644) for /tmp/xauth-xxx-_y, which allows local users to obtain X11 cookies of other users and consequently capture keystrokes and possibly gain privileges by reading the file.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (3)
References (16)