Privilege Escalation via Unnecessary Privileges in lightdm-kde-greeter <6.0.4
CVE-2025-62876 Published on November 12, 2025
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.
Weakness Type
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
The software performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-62876
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Affected Versions
openSUSE:- Version ? and below 6.0.4 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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