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CVE-2003-0690: Kde: Privilege escalation

CVE-2003-0690 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Kde. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pam_setcred function call succeeds, which may allow attackers to gain root privileges by triggering error conditions within PAM modules, as demonstrated in certain configurations of the MIT pam_krb5 module.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Kde: 1.1; 1.1.1; 1.1.2; 1.2; 2.0; 2.0.1; 2.0_beta; 2.1; 2.1.1; 2.1.2; 2.2; 2.2.1

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