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CVE-2017-8422

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-290

Description

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.

Affected products

• KDE Kauth: through 5.33
• Kdelibs: through 4.14.31

References

• 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
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038480
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264
• 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3849

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