CVE-2025-62876 json
A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue aff…
published 11mo ago modified 22d ago also EUVD-2025-131905
- cvss
- 5.3
- version 4.0, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- SUSE openSUSE 6.0.4
- lightdm-kde-greeter openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.0.5-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15788-1
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- 11mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 4.0 | 5.3 | 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 |
| CNA | 4.0 | 5.3 | 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
Affected products
- SUSE openSUSE
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-62876
- NVD CVE-2025-62876
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