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Medium 5.3Published Nov 12, 2025
CVE-2025-62876A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter.
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-250
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- suse
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
SUSE openSUSE suse:opensuse (from the name) | from ? before 6.0.4 | CNA record |
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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