CVE-2017-8849

KDE 4/5 - 'KAuth' Local Privilege Escalation

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

smb4k before 2.0.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify arguments to the mount helper DBUS service.

smb4k anterior a versión 2.0.1, permite a los usuarios locales conseguir privilegios root mediante la explotación del fallo de comprobación de argumentos en el servicio auxiliar de montaje DBUS.

KDE versions 4 and 5 suffer from a KAuth privilege escalation vulnerability.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-05-08 CVE Reserved
2017-05-17 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98690	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98737	Third Party Advisory
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-2.txt	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053	2024-08-05
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449656	2019-03-18
https://cgit.kde.org/smb4k.git/commit/?id=71554140bdaede27b95dbe4c9b5a028a83c83cce	2019-03-18
https://cgit.kde.org/smb4k.git/commit/?id=a90289b0962663bc1d247bbbd31b9e65b2ca000e	2019-03-18

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3951	2019-03-18
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-14	2019-03-18

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Smb4k Project Search vendor "Smb4k Project"		Smb4k Search vendor "Smb4k Project" for product "Smb4k"				<= 2.0.0 Search vendor "Smb4k Project" for product "Smb4k" and version " <= 2.0.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected