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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-62876 is exploitable with local system access. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity and availability.
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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