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CVE-2017-8422

kauth: service invoking dbus is not properly checked and allows local privilege escalation

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 10, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way kdelibs handled D-Bus messages. A local user could potentially use this flaw to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper application.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing