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Published: 08/03/2018 Updated: 27/03/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) prior to 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).

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CWE-264 https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html https://nvd.nist.gov

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