CVE-2025-62876
MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM UTC
Updated: October 18, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendoropenSUSE
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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter. before 6.0.4.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
? ≤ v < 6.0.4?
Affected range stops below 6.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/17/4SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
5.3MEDIUMsuse
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-250
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