CVE-2017-8422
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…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- KDE 4/5 - 'KAuth' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42053local, linuxpublished 18 May 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 42053 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1038480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 42053 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449647 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 98412 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201706-29 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://cgit.kde.org/kdelibs.git/commit/?id=264e97625abe2e0334f97de17f6ffb52582888ab (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3849 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://cgit.kde.org/kauth.git/commit/?id=df875f725293af53399f5146362eb158b4f9216a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170510 generic kde LPE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1264 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-17373 (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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