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Description

A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter. before 6.0.4.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-24 | Published 2025-11-12 | Updated 2025-11-17 | Assigner suse




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Product status

Default status
unaffected

? (semver) before 6.0.4
affected

Credits

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE finder

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/17/4

bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-62876

cve.org (CVE-2025-62876)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-62876)

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