CVE-2003-0690: Kde

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pam_setcred function call succeeds, which may allow attackers to gain root privileges by triggering error conditions within PAM modules, as demonstrated in certain configurations of the MIT pam_krb5 module.

Affected products

• Kde Kde: version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; …

Published 2003-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.