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CVE-2025-62876 (GCVE-0-2025-62876)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 12:57 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
VLAI
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-13 04:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE openSUSE Affected: ? , < 6.0.4 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-11-04 11:16
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