CVE-2004-2655: Xscreensaver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rdesktop 1.3.1 with xscreensaver 4.14, and possibly other versions, when running on Fedora and possibly other platforms, does not release the keyboard focus when xscreensaver starts, which causes the password to be entered into the active window when the user unlocks the screen.

Affected products

• Xscreensaver Xscreensaver: version 4.14 only; version 4.16 only; version 4.17 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.