CVE-2017-8422
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.80% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-05-17 14:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 16:34Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-05-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290Authentication Bypass by SpoofingBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e1351ae855346c12f79b00e0e8d270031cd76ac421bc78fd16f7a73716eb1ced
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1038480http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480
- www.exploit-db.com42053https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/
- www.kde.orghttps://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647
- www.securityfocus.com98412http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98412
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201706-29https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29
- cgit.kde.orghttps://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab
- www.debian.orgDSA-3849http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849
- cgit.kde.orghttps://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170510 generic kde LPEhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:1264https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- kauth Fixed in 5.33.0-2
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- kauth Fixed in 5.28.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- kauth Fixed in 5.28.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- kauth Fixed in 5.28.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- kde4libs Fixed in 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.5
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- kauth Fixed in 5.18.0-0ubuntu2
- kde4libs Fixed in 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.