Kauth vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Kauth is made by Kde. We track 3 published vulnerabilities in it, across 89 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Kauth, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 2.4%CVE-2019-7443High
KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus via DBusHelperProxy.cpp.
- 1.8%CVE-2017-8422High
KDE kdelibs before 4.14.32 and KAuth before 5.34 allow local users to gain root privileges by spoofing a callerID and leveraging a privileged helper app.
- 0.4%CVE-2014-5033Medium
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess...
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KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus via DBusHelperProxy.cpp. Certain types can cause crashes, and trigger the decoding of arbitrary images with dynamically loaded plugins. In other words, KAuth unintentionally causes this plugin code to run as root, which increases the severity of any possible exploitation of a plugin vulnerability.
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We track 3 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Kauth, across 89 versions.
None of Kauth's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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