CVE-2017-8422
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8422
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8422.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8422
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-05-17T14:29:00.387Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-08T22:04:42.002739Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98412
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647
- https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a
- https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
Affected packages
Git / github.com/kde/kauth
Git / github.com/kde/kdelibs
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/kde/kdelibs
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
Affected versions
KDE/4.*
KDE/4.8.97
v3.*
v3.4.0-beta1
v3.4.0-beta2
v3.80.2
v3.80.3
v3.91
v3.92
v3.95
v3.96
v3.97
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.0.3
v4.0.71
v4.0.80
v4.0.83
v4.1.96
v4.10.0
v4.10.1
v4.10.2
v4.10.3
v4.10.4
v4.10.5
v4.10.80
v4.10.90
v4.10.95
v4.10.97
v4.11.0
v4.11.1
v4.11.2
v4.11.3
v4.11.4
v4.11.5
v4.11.80
v4.11.90
v4.11.95
v4.11.97
v4.12.0
v4.12.1
v4.12.2
v4.12.3
v4.12.4
v4.12.5
v4.12.80
v4.12.90
v4.12.95
v4.12.97
v4.13.0
v4.13.1
v4.13.2
v4.13.3
v4.13.80
v4.13.90
v4.13.95
v4.13.97
v4.14.0
v4.14.1
v4.14.10
v4.14.11
v4.14.12
v4.14.13
v4.14.14
v4.14.15
v4.14.16
v4.14.17
v4.14.18
v4.14.19
v4.14.2
v4.14.20
v4.14.21
v4.14.22
v4.14.23
v4.14.24
v4.14.25
v4.14.26
v4.14.27
v4.14.28
v4.14.29
v4.14.3
v4.14.30
v4.14.31
v4.14.4
v4.14.5
v4.14.6
v4.14.7
v4.14.8
v4.14.9
v4.2.95
v4.2.96
v4.3.95
v4.3.98
v4.4.1
v4.4.80
v4.4.85
v4.6.90
v4.6.95
v4.7.0
v4.7.1
v4.7.2
v4.7.3
v4.7.4
v4.7.95
v4.7.97
v4.8.0
v4.8.1
v4.8.2
v4.8.3
v4.8.4
v4.8.80
v4.8.90
v4.8.95
v4.8.97
v4.9.0
v4.9.1
v4.9.2
v4.9.3
v4.9.4
v4.9.80
v4.9.90
v4.9.95
v4.9.97
v4.9.98