CVE-2018-14345

Summary

CVECVE-2018-14345
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-17 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in SDDM through 0.17.0. If configured with ReuseSession=true, the password is not checked for users with an already existing session. Any user with access to the system D-Bus can therefore unlock any graphical session. This is related to daemon/Display.cpp and helper/backend/PamBackend.cpp.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287 | CWE-613

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sddm Project Sddm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1101450 – VUL-0: CVE-2018-14345: sddm: unlock existing sessions without authentication if ReuseSession=true CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Fix authentication when reusing an existing session · sddm/sddm@147cec3 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690617 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for x11 session (f00acdec-b59f-11e8-805d-001e2a3f778d)

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