CVE-2014-8651: Kde Kde-Workspace

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility (ntp utility name) argument.

Affected products

• Kde Kde-Workspace: up to and including 4.11.13
• Kde Plasma-Desktop: up to and including 5.1

Published 2014-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.