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Publication date: 2025-11-12

Last updated on: 2025-11-17

Assigner: SUSE

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.

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Published

2025-11-12

Last Modified

2025-11-17

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-11-13

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-62876

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
lightdm-kde-greeter	lightdm-kde-greeter	*

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-250	The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges issue in lightdm-kde-greeter before version 6.0.4. It allows a user with the service user privileges to escalate their privileges to root, meaning they can gain full administrative control over the system.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can impact you by allowing an attacker or unauthorized user to gain root access from a lower privileged service user account. This can lead to full control over the affected system, potentially allowing them to modify system files, install malicious software, or disrupt system operations.

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