CVE-2017-8422

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8422
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8422.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8422
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-05-17T14:29:00.387Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:22:17.765380Z
Severity
  • 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

KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kde/kauth

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kde/kauth
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
213cbb0ccd23a2114e688d51f3c3867cf37ef8ee
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.33"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kde/kdelibs
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
d9213d0c2de17f60c57e1e216313963d613b9e16
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.14.31"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

KDE/4.*
KDE/4.8.97
v3.*
v3.4.0-beta1
v3.4.0-beta2
v3.80.2
v3.80.3
v3.91
v3.92
v3.95
v3.96
v3.97
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.0.3
v4.0.71
v4.0.80
v4.0.83
v4.1.96
v4.10.0
v4.10.1
v4.10.2
v4.10.3
v4.10.4
v4.10.5
v4.10.80
v4.10.90
v4.10.95
v4.10.97
v4.11.0
v4.11.1
v4.11.2
v4.11.3
v4.11.4
v4.11.5
v4.11.80
v4.11.90
v4.11.95
v4.11.97
v4.12.0
v4.12.1
v4.12.2
v4.12.3
v4.12.4
v4.12.5
v4.12.80
v4.12.90
v4.12.95
v4.12.97
v4.13.0
v4.13.1
v4.13.2
v4.13.3
v4.13.80
v4.13.90
v4.13.95
v4.13.97
v4.14.0
v4.14.1
v4.14.10
v4.14.11
v4.14.12
v4.14.13
v4.14.14
v4.14.15
v4.14.16
v4.14.17
v4.14.18
v4.14.19
v4.14.2
v4.14.20
v4.14.21
v4.14.22
v4.14.23
v4.14.24
v4.14.25
v4.14.26
v4.14.27
v4.14.28
v4.14.29
v4.14.3
v4.14.30
v4.14.31
v4.14.4
v4.14.5
v4.14.6
v4.14.7
v4.14.8
v4.14.9
v4.2.95
v4.2.96
v4.3.95
v4.3.98
v4.4.1
v4.4.80
v4.4.85
v4.6.90
v4.6.95
v4.7.0
v4.7.1
v4.7.2
v4.7.3
v4.7.4
v4.7.95
v4.7.97
v4.8.0
v4.8.1
v4.8.2
v4.8.3
v4.8.4
v4.8.80
v4.8.90
v4.8.95
v4.8.97
v4.9.0
v4.9.1
v4.9.2
v4.9.3
v4.9.4
v4.9.80
v4.9.90
v4.9.95
v4.9.97
v4.9.98

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8422.json"