CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8422
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-17
- 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-290
Description
KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.
Affected configurations
• kde kauth (<= 5.33)
• kde kdelibs (<= 4.14.31)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98412 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480 www.securitytracker.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a Patch
- https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98412 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480 www.securitytracker.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a Patch
- https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory