CVE-2019-7443

Severity
8.1HIGH
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMay 7
Latest updateApr 20

Description

KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus via DBusHelperProxy.cpp. Certain types can cause crashes, and trigger the decoding of arbitrary images with dynamically loaded plugins. In other words, KAuth unintentionally causes this plugin code to run as root, which increases the severity of any possible exploitation of a plugin vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDkde/kauth< 5.55.0
Debiankauth< 5.54.0-2+3
NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 42.3+1

Also affects: Fedora 28, 29

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wmpm-pm59-7mfw: KDE KAuth before 52022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2019-7443: KDE KAuth before 52019-05-07
CVEList
CVE-2019-7443: KDE KAuth before 52019-05-07

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
KAuth vulnerability2023-04-20
Debian
CVE-2019-7443: kauth - KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to h...2019

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-7443 kf5-kauth: kauth: insecure handling of arguments in helpers [epel-all]2020-04-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-7443 kauth: insecure handling of arguments in helpers2020-04-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-7443 kf5-kauth: kauth: insecure handling of arguments in helpers [fedora-all]2020-04-23