CVE-2017-8422

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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
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (3)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (3)
SUSE (1)
Published
2017-05-17T14:29:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T11:36:41Z
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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kde/kauth

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kde/kauth
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
213cbb0ccd23a2114e688d51f3c3867cf37ef8ee
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:kde:kauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "5.33"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.100.0-rc1
v4.95.0
v4.96.0
v4.97.0
v4.98.0
v5.*
v5.33.0
v5.33.0-rc1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8422.json"

Git / github.com/kde/kdelibs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kde/kdelibs
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
d9213d0c2de17f60c57e1e216313963d613b9e16
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdelibs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "4.14.31"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

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.*
v4.0.71
v4.0.80
v4.0.83
v4.10.90
v4.10.95
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
v4.4.80
v4.4.85

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8422.json"