CVE-2017-8422: Kde Kauth

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Kde Kauth: up to and including 5.33
• Kde Kdelibs: up to and including 4.14.31

Published 2017-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.