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CVE-2016-7787
A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as…
Medium4.9EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as super user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% 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: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2495 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2498 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 93224 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160929 Re: kdesu vulnerability: need CVE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- 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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