CVE-2005-0579: Freenx

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to access the X server without X authentication.

Affected products

• Freenx Freenx: version 0.2.0 only; version 0.2.1 only; version 0.2.2 only; version 0.2.3 only; version 0.2.4 only; version 0.2.5 only; …

Published 2005-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.