CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2014-7272
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).
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- sddm_project:sddm
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280