Vulnerability Details CVE-2014-7272
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).
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 36.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
References
- 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280
- 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280
Products affected by CVE-2014-7272
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cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:-
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cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:0.8.99
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cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:0.9.0
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21