CVE-2014-7272
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7272
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-7272.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-7272
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-03-08T20:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).
- References
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610