CVE-2009-2711· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

XScreenSaver in Sun Solaris 9 and 10, OpenSolaris before snv_120, and X11 6.4.1 for Solaris 8, when the Xorg or Xnewt server is used, allows

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.39% (FIRST EPSS).
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

XScreenSaver in Sun Solaris 9 and 10, OpenSolaris before snv_120, and X11 6.4.1 for Solaris 8, when the Xorg or Xnewt server is used, allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading popup windows, which are displayed even when the screen is locked, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1276.

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Info leak

Published: Aug 7, 2009
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 31th percentile
CWE: CWE-200

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

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Vendor	Product	CPE
sun	opensolaris	cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris
sun	solaris	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris
x.org	x11	cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

sun opensolarissnv_01
sun opensolarissnv_02
sun opensolarissnv_03
sun opensolarissnv_04
sun opensolarissnv_05
sun opensolarissnv_06
sun opensolarissnv_07
sun opensolarissnv_08
sun opensolarissnv_09
sun opensolarissnv_10
sun opensolarissnv_100
sun opensolarissnv_101
sun opensolarissnv_102
sun opensolarissnv_103
sun opensolarissnv_104
sun opensolarissnv_105
sun opensolarissnv_106
sun opensolarissnv_107
sun opensolarissnv_108
sun opensolarissnv_109

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2009-2644Jul 29, 2009 · Race condition in the Solaris Auditing subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_121, when extended file attributes are u
19Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2009-2652Aug 3, 2009 · Unspecified vulnerability in Solaris Trusted Extensions in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_37 through snv_120, allows remote attackers t
27Monitor
Later →CVE-2009-2912Aug 21, 2009 · The (1) sendfile and (2) sendfilev functions in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_110, allow local users to cause a denia
19Monitor

Remediation

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: C · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack complexity: Low
Confidentiality impact: C
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-200 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

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1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

Fixed

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1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

secunia.com/advisories/36170

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