CVE-2015-8025

Exp

driver/subprocs.c in XScreenSaver before 5.34 does not properly perform an internal consistency check, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by hot swapping monitors.

Published: 2015-11-10 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-8025 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.07%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-8025

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-8025

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-06-27 0.04% 0.07% +0.03%
2 2025-03-30 0.06% 0.04% -0.03%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.06% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-8025

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-8025

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-8025

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-8025 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xscreensaver), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8025
suse medium CVE-2015-8025 severity moderate: SUSE including 30 source package names (xscreensaver, xscreensaver-5.07-6.36.1, …), 109 product×package rows across 50 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (50 product lines)): Fixed 79, Known Not Affected 30. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8025/
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-8025 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xscreensaver), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial): released 3, ignored 2, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8025

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-8025

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
xscreensaver_project xscreensaver 5.33 cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver_project:xscreensaver:5.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-8025

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