Kde Kauth vulnerabilities

3 CVEs affecting Kde Kauth, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2019-7443, published 2019-05-07.

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CVE-2019-7443, published 2019-05-07. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus via DBusHelperProxy.cpp. Certain types can cause crashes, and trigger the decoding of…
CVE-2017-8422, published 2017-05-17. 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.
CVE-2014-5033, published 2014-08-19. Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a…