CVE-2025-62876

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-11-12 · updated 2026-10-18
Weakness: CWE-250

Description

A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter. before 6.0.4.

Affected products

SUSE openSUSE: from ? before 6.0.4 — fixed in 6.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SUSE openSUSE 6.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-62876
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/17/4

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