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CVE-2014-7271
Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to log in as user "sddm" without authentication.
High7.8EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to log in as user "sddm" without authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- 70767 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- sddm-cve20147271-sec-bypass(98421) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149608 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/279/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-12442 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-12308 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.10.0-Release-Announcement (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141006 Re: various sddm vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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