CVE-2025-26599
Xorg: xwayland: use of uninitialized pointer in compredirectwindow()
Severity Score
7.8
*CVSS v3.1
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
0
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*SSVC
Descriptions
An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree marked just before, which leaves the validated data partly initialized and the use of an uninitialized pointer later.
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of X.Org Server. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the handling of window redirection. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a type confusion condition. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root.
Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered several vulnerabilities in the Xorg X server, which may result in privilege escalation if the X server is running privileged.
*Credits:
Jan-Niklas Sohn
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Timeline
- 2025-02-12 CVE Reserved
- 2025-02-25 CVE Published
- 2025-06-16 CVE Updated
- 2025-06-27 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-824: Access of Uninitialized Pointer
CAPEC
References (16)
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| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26599 | 2025-02-25 | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345253 | 2025-02-25 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2500 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2502 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2861 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2862 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2865 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2866 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2873 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2874 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2875 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2879 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2880 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7163 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7165 | 2025-06-16 | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7458 | 2025-06-16 |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Aus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Aus" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel E4s Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel E4s" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Eus" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Tus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Tus" | * | - |
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| Tigervnc Search vendor "Tigervnc" | Tigervnc Search vendor "Tigervnc" for product "Tigervnc" | * | - |
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| X.org Search vendor "X.org" | X Server Search vendor "X.org" for product "X Server" | * | - |
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| X.org Search vendor "X.org" | Xwayland Search vendor "X.org" for product "Xwayland" | * | - |
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| Amazon Search vendor "Amazon" | Linux Search vendor "Amazon" for product "Linux" | * | - |
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| Canonical Search vendor "Canonical" | Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" | * | - |
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| Debian Search vendor "Debian" | Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" | * | - |
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| Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject" | Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" | * | - |
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| Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" | Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" | * | - |
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| Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" | Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" | * | - |
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| Oracle Search vendor "Oracle" | Linux Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Linux" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Aus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Aus" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel E4s Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel E4s" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Els Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Els" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Eus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Eus" | * | - |
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| Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Rhel Tus Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Rhel Tus" | * | - |
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| Rocky Search vendor "Rocky" | Linux Search vendor "Rocky" for product "Linux" | * | - |
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| Slackware Search vendor "Slackware" | Slackware Linux Search vendor "Slackware" for product "Slackware Linux" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sle-module-basesystem Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sle-module-basesystem" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sle-module-development-tools Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sle-module-development-tools" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sle-we Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sle-we" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sle Hpc-espos Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sle Hpc-espos" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sle Hpc-ltss Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sle Hpc-ltss" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sles-ltss-extended-security Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sles-ltss-extended-security" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sles-ltss Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sles-ltss" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Sles Sap Search vendor "Suse" for product "Sles Sap" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Suse-manager-proxy Search vendor "Suse" for product "Suse-manager-proxy" | * | - |
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| Suse Search vendor "Suse" | Suse-manager-server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Suse-manager-server" | * | - |
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