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CVE-2014-7272

N/A
Published: March 8, 2018 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:14 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraSddm

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
2021
Sddm· Sddm Project
95%
v < 0.10.0
Affected range stops below 0.10.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (5)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280

CVSS

7.2HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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