CVE-2026-25710

high

Description

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.

References

https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/27/plasma-login-manager.html#6-upstream-bugfix

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-25710

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/27/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-13

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7

Vector: 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