CVE-2024-0409 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2024-0409

Xorg-x11-server: selinux context corruption

7.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in the X.Org server. The cursor code in both Xephyr and Xwayland uses the wrong type of private at creation. It uses the cursor bits type with the cursor as private, and when initiating the cursor, that overwrites the XSELINUX context.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Red Hat would like to thank Olivier Fourdan for reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

Unknown

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Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Vulnerable Versions:

21.1.0, 0:1.20.4-27.el7_9, 0:1.20.11-22.el8, 0:21.1.3-15.el8, 0:1.20.11-24.el9, 0:22.1.9-5.el9

Timeline

Official Publish: January 18th, 2024

Last Modified: November 20th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1055 Process Injection

Defense Evasion

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control

T1485 Data Destruction