{"id":"CVE-2014-7272","details":"Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 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).","modified":"2026-04-16T06:18:32.641339905Z","published":"2018-03-08T20:29:00Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:10135-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}