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By the Year

In 2025 there have been 8 vulnerabilities in Xorg Xwayland with an average score of 7.8 out of ten. Last year, in 2024 Xwayland had 4 security vulnerabilities published. That is, 4 more vulnerabilities have already been reported in 2025 as compared to last year. However, the average CVE base score of the vulnerabilities in 2025 is greater by 0.08.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2025 8 7.80
2024 4 7.73
2023 3 6.50
2022 0 0.00
2021 0 0.00
2020 0 0.00
2019 0 0.00
2018 0 0.00

It may take a day or so for new Xwayland vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.

Recent Xorg Xwayland Security Vulnerabilities

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26601 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. When changing an alarm, the values of the change mask are evaluated one after the other, changing the trigger values as requested, and eventually, SyncInitTrigger() is called. If one of the changes triggers an error, the function will return early, not adding the new sync object, possibly causing a use-after-free when the alarm eventually triggers.

Dangling pointer

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26600 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. When a device is removed while still frozen, the events queued for that device remain while the device is freed. Replaying the events will cause a use-after-free.

Dangling pointer

An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26599 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree marked just before, which leaves the validated data partly initialized and the use of an uninitialized pointer later.

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26598 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function GetBarrierDevice() searches for the pointer device based on its device ID and returns the matching value, or supposedly NULL, if no match was found. However, the code will return the last element of the list if no matching device ID is found, which can lead to out-of-bounds memory access.

Memory Corruption

A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26597 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. If XkbChangeTypesOfKey() is called with a 0 group, it will resize the key symbols table to 0 but leave the key actions unchanged. If the same function is later called with a non-zero value of groups, this will cause a buffer overflow because the key actions are of the wrong size.

Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26596 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A heap overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The computation of the length in XkbSizeKeySyms() differs from what is written in XkbWriteKeySyms(), which may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Memory Corruption

A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26595 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The code in XkbVModMaskText() allocates a fixed-sized buffer on the stack and copies the names of the virtual modifiers to that buffer. The code fails to check the bounds of the buffer and would copy the data regardless of the size.

Memory Corruption

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland

CVE-2025-26594 7.8 - High - February 25, 2025

A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The root cursor is referenced in the X server as a global variable. If a client frees the root cursor, the internal reference points to freed memory and causes a use-after-free.

Dangling pointer

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server

CVE-2024-0229 7.8 - High - February 09, 2024

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the X.Org server. This issue can be triggered when a device frozen by a sync grab is reattached to a different master device. This issue may lead to an application crash, local privilege escalation (if the server runs with extended privileges), or remote code execution in SSH X11 forwarding environments.

Memory Corruption

A flaw was found in the X.Org server

CVE-2024-0409 7.8 - High - January 18, 2024

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.

Memory Corruption

A flaw was found in the X.Org server

CVE-2024-0408 5.5 - Medium - January 18, 2024

A flaw was found in the X.Org server. The GLX PBuffer code does not call the XACE hook when creating the buffer, leaving it unlabeled. When the client issues another request to access that resource (as with a GetGeometry) or when it creates another resource that needs to access that buffer, such as a GC, the XSELINUX code will try to use an object that was never labeled and crash because the SID is NULL.

A flaw was found in X.Org server

CVE-2023-6816 9.8 - Critical - January 18, 2024

A flaw was found in X.Org server. Both DeviceFocusEvent and the XIQueryPointer reply contain a bit for each logical button currently down. Buttons can be arbitrarily mapped to any value up to 255, but the X.Org Server was only allocating space for the device's particular number of buttons, leading to a heap overflow if a bigger value was used.

Memory Corruption

A use-after-free flaw was found in xorg-x11-server-Xvfb

CVE-2023-5574 7 - High - October 25, 2023

A use-after-free flaw was found in xorg-x11-server-Xvfb. This issue occurs in Xvfb with a very specific and legacy configuration (a multi-screen setup with multiple protocol screens, also known as Zaphod mode). If the pointer is warped from a screen 1 to a screen 0, a use-after-free issue may be triggered during shutdown or reset of the Xvfb server, allowing for possible escalation of privileges or denial of service.

Dangling pointer

A use-after-free flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server

CVE-2023-5380 4.7 - Medium - October 25, 2023

A use-after-free flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server. An X server crash may occur in a very specific and legacy configuration (a multi-screen setup with multiple protocol screens, also known as Zaphod mode) if the pointer is warped from within a window on one screen to the root window of the other screen and if the original window is destroyed followed by another window being destroyed.

Dangling pointer

A out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server

CVE-2023-5367 7.8 - High - October 25, 2023

A out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server. This issue occurs due to an incorrect calculation of a buffer offset when copying data stored in the heap in the XIChangeDeviceProperty function in Xi/xiproperty.c and in RRChangeOutputProperty function in randr/rrproperty.c, allowing for possible escalation of privileges or denial of service.

Memory Corruption

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