Upstream information

CVE-2025-62876 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v4 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (SUSE)
Base Score 5.3
Vector 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
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Attack Requirements None
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Passive
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High
Vulnerable System Availability Impact High
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None
CVSSv4 Version 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1249146 [IN_PROGRESS]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 5 09:32:19 2025
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 13 01:26:18 2025