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.

NVD

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

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.02%
Percentile
5.68%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.