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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-8422

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.

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CVE-2017-8422
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1 Nov 2026, 04:38 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-8422

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 May 2017, 14:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-8422
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8422",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2017-8422",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-8422",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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      ],
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          }
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            "v3.80.3",
            "v3.80.2",
            "v3.4.0-beta2",
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.114470395Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1264",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-29",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647",
        "https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a",
        "https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab",
        "https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430421,
  "published_at": "2017-05-17T14:29:00.387+00:00"
}