CVE-2003-0885: Xscreensaver

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Xscreensaver Xscreensaver: version 4.14 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.