CVE-2025-26599
Xorg: xwayland: use of uninitialized pointer in compredirectwindow()
02 Description
Xorg: xwayland: use of uninitialized pointer in compredirectwindow()
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 34.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-29.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-02-25 15:55Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-06-29 20:37Z4 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-02-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824Access of Uninitialized PointerBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- f618c9e9cdaf0303df63b91d86407330bbec7584cc3a105d8549e5e6476680df
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2500https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2500
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2502https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2502
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2861https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2861
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2862https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2862
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2865https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2865
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2866https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2866
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2873https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2873
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2874https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2874
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2875https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2875
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2879https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2879
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:2880https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2880
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:3976https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3976
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:7163https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7163
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:7165https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7165
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2025:7458https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7458
- access.redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26599
- bugzilla.redhat.comRHBZ#2345253https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345253
- lists.debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00036.html
07 Fixed in
AlmaLinux 8
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-icons Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-license Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-selinux Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server-minimal Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server-module Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
Source: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
AlmaLinux 9
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-icons Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-license Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-selinux Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server-minimal Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server-module Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- xorg-x11-server-Xdmx Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xephyr Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xnest Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xorg Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xvfb Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xwayland Fixed in 23.2.7-3.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-devel Fixed in 23.2.7-3.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-common Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-devel Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-source Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
Source: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
CloudLinux 8
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-icons Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-license Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-selinux Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server-minimal Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
- tigervnc-server-module Fixed in 1.13.1-15.el8_10
Derived from AlmaLinux 8. Partial coverage: only packages taken from AlmaLinux 8 are listed.
Source: CloudLinux errata, CloudLinux Inc. Derived from: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
CloudLinux 9
- tigervnc Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-icons Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-license Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-selinux Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server-minimal Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- tigervnc-server-module Fixed in 1.14.1-1.el9_5.1
- xorg-x11-server-Xdmx Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xephyr Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xnest Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xorg Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xvfb Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xwayland Fixed in 23.2.7-3.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-devel Fixed in 23.2.7-3.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-common Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-devel Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
- xorg-x11-server-source Fixed in 1.20.11-28.el9_6
Derived from AlmaLinux 9. Partial coverage: only packages taken from AlmaLinux 9 are listed.
Source: CloudLinux errata, CloudLinux Inc. Derived from: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u9
- xwayland No fix yet
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.16-1
- xwayland Fixed in 2:24.1.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.16-1
- xwayland Fixed in 2:24.1.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:1.20.13-1ubuntu1~20.04.19
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.4-2ubuntu1.7~22.04.13
- xwayland Fixed in 2:22.1.1-1ubuntu0.17
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu1.2
- xwayland Fixed in 2:23.2.6-1ubuntu0.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:21.1.16-1ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- xorg-server No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.12+esm17Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
- xorg-server-hwe-16.04 Fixed in 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.1~16.04.6+esm9Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- xorg-server Fixed in 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.15+esm12Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
- xorg-server-hwe-18.04 Fixed in 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.2~18.04.11+esm4Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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