CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-26594

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The root cursor is stored as a global variable, and if a client frees it, the internal reference points to freed memory, causing a use-after-free.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (DoS) on systems running the X server.

Recommendation

Update X.Org and Xwayland packages to the patched version immediately to fix the use-after-free issue.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The root cursor is referenced in the X server as a global variable. If a client frees the root cursor, the internal reference points to freed memory and causes a use-after-free.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS