Medium severity · published Nov 12, 2025
CVE-2025-62876
A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter. before 6.0.4
5.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in lightdm-kde-greeter allows escalation from the service user to root.This issue affects lightdm-kde-greeter. before 6.0.4.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
openSUSE · SUSE
? before 6.0.4 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62876
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62876
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-62876
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/17/4
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