5.3

CVE-2025-62876: suse opensuse Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CVSS: 5.3v4.0MediumDeferred
AliasesopenSUSE-SU-2025:15788-1
Published 12-11-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-62876 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in suse opensuse. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 12-11-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.14% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.15%

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

Opensuse1 product
  • lightdm-kde-greeter&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 6.0.5-1.1
Suse1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

3 links