Vulnerability in Sddm Project
CVE-2015-0856
daemon/Greeter.cpp in sddm before 0.13.0 does not properly disable the KDE crash handler, which allows local users to gain privileges by crashing a greeter when using certain themes, as demonstrated by the plasma-workspace breeze theme.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (33.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 33.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sddm Project
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 22
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement (Vendor Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 (Vendor Advisory)