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GHSA-WV98-2G94-X84X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-13 18:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 18:30

Details

The new upstream added a privileged D-Bus helper called plasmaloginauthhelper, which suffers from multiple issues, e.g.aA compromised plasmalogin service account can chown() arbitrary files in the system.

Severity ?

7.0 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2026-25710 (GCVE-0-2026-25710)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 08:44 – Updated: 2026-05-13 10:48

Summary

Severity ?

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Assigner

suse

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/27/plasma-l…
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
KDE	plasma-login-manager	Affected: 0 , < ? (custom)

Credits

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE

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GHSA-WV98-2G94-X84X

CVE-2026-25710 (GCVE-0-2026-25710)

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