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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00022.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
SUSE openSUSE unaffected
Version Status Constraints
? affected < 6.0.4

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

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000

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Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Kde
Kde kde
Vendors & Products Kde
Kde kde

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:15:00 +0000

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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.
Weaknesses CWE-250
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-17T17:03:53.487Z

Reserved: 2025-10-24T10:34:22.765Z

Link: CVE-2025-62876

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-17T17:03:53.487Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-12T13:15:46.213

Modified: 2025-11-17T17:15:50.667

Link: CVE-2025-62876

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Updated: 2025-11-13T15:50:12Z

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