CVE-2015-2831: Das Watchdog Project Das Watchdog

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in das_watchdog 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a large string in the XAUTHORITY environment variable.

Affected products

• Das Watchdog Project Das Watchdog: version 0.9.0 only

Published 2015-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.