CVE-2017-8422

HIGH

KDE Kauth < 5.33 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

by Stealth · clocallinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (11)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] 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

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647

[Patch] https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a

[Patch] https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 59.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-290

Status published

Products (2)

kde/kauth < 5.33

kde/kdelibs < 4.14.31

Published May 17, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026