CVE-2014-7272

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610Issue Tracking
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610Issue Tracking
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280Patch

Timeline

Published: Mar 8, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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