CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7272
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).
Affected configurations
• sddm project sddm (< 0.10.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• fedoraproject fedora 21
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280 Patch