CVE-2014-8651

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility (ntp utility name) argument.

Affected products

Kde-Workspace: through 4.11.13
KDE Plasma-Desktop: through 5.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143781.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144034.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144093.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70904
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2402-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-12
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20141106-1.txt
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143781.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144034.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144093.html

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