CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-62876

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

An execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root. This issue affects versions before 6.0.4.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could gain root privileges, leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Update lightdm-kde-greeter to version 6.0.4 or later.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS