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CVE-2024-36041: kde plasma-workspace Insufficient Session Expiration

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesMGASA-2024-0214openSUSE-SU-2024:0161-1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36041
Published 05-07-2024Last modified 04-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-36041 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in kde plasma-workspace. EPSS estimates a 0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.30%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 05-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

KSmserver in KDE Plasma Workspace (aka plasma-workspace) before 5.27.11.1 and 6.x before 6.0.5.1 allows connections via ICE based purely on the host, i.e., all local connections are accepted. This allows another user on the same machine to gain access to the session manager, e.g., use the session-restore feature to execute arbitrary code as the victim (on the next boot) via earlier use of the /tmp directory.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

21%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.30% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.30%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • plasma-workspace< 4:5.27.11.1-1 | < 4:5.20.5-6+deb11u1 | < 4:5.27.5-2+deb12u2 | < 4:5.14.5.1-1+deb10u1
Kde1 product
Mageia1 product
  • plasma-workspace< 5.27.10-1.1.mga9
Opensuse1 product
  • plasma5-workspace&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 5.27.11-bp156.3.3.1
Suse1 product
  • plasma5-workspace&distro=SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6< 5.27.11-bp156.3.3.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • plasma-workspaceAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 4:5.18.8-0ubuntu0.2 | < 4:5.24.7-0ubuntu0.2 | < 4:5.27.11-0ubuntu4.1 | < 4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm1

6 vendors · 6 products

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