{"id":"CVE-2020-27187","details":"An issue was discovered in KDE Partition Manager 4.1.0 before 4.2.0. The kpmcore_externalcommand helper contains a logic flaw in which the service invoking D-Bus is not properly checked. An attacker on the local machine can replace /etc/fstab, and execute mount and other partitioning related commands, while KDE Partition Manager is running. the mount command can then be used to gain full root privileges.","modified":"2026-03-15T14:06:41.125574Z","published":"2020-10-26T17:15:12.813Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/KDE/partitionmanager/compare/v4.1.0...v4.2.0"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-03"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890199"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20201017-1.txt"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/kde/partitionmanager","events":[{"introduced":"72cdc794df40f22b135f31204a7afd1d488739a5"},{"fixed":"b34b656c24099e1263c3601b43092f9624283940"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"4.1.0"},{"fixed":"4.2.0"}]}}],"versions":["v4.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27187.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}