Vigil@nce - KDE KAuth: privilege escalation
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions of KDE KAuth, in order to
escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/KDE-KAuth-privilege-escalation-28524