Kauth

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Kauth, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 3 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Kauth.

• CVE-2019-7443KDE 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 o...8.1May 7, 2019
• CVE-2017-8422KDE 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.7.8May 17, 2017
• CVE-2014-5033KDE 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 P...6.9Aug 19, 2014