A flaw was found in the X Rendering extension's handling of animated cursors. If a client provides no cursors, the server assumes at least one is present, leading to an out-of-bounds read and potential crash.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-49175 is rated Moderate Risk (40.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.22%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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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 | 2026-04-13 | 0.06% | 0.22% | +0.16% |
| 2 | 2026-02-20 | 0.01% | 0.06% | +0.05% |
| 3 | 2025-06-18 | — | 0.01% | — |
Full EPSS history (3 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 4.2 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2025-49175: 2 source package rows (xorg-server, xwayland); 4 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 4, open 0. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-49175 |
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2025-49175 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (xorg-server, xwayland), 9 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 7, open 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-49175 |
redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49175 |
suse
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high | CVE-2025-49175 severity important: SUSE including 319 source package names (21.1-46.1:xorg-x11-server-21.1.11-150600.5.12.1, 21.1-46.1:xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-21.1.11-150600.5.12.1, …), 405 product×package rows across 56 product lines (Container suse/kiosk/xorg, Image SLES15-SP4-SAP, … (56 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 174. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49175/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-49175 medium priority: Ubuntu including 7 source packages (xorg, xorg-hwe-16.04, …), 53 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 20, released 17, not-affected 13, needs-triage 3. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-49175 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| No affected products in dataset. | |||