The new upstream added a privileged D-Bus
helper called plasmaloginauthhelper, which suffers from multiple issues, e.g.aA compromised plasmalogin service account can chown() arbitrary files in the system.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00013.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
KDE plasma-login-manager unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < ?

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References
Link Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/27/1 cve-icon
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-25710 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/27/plasma-login-manager.html#6-upstream-bugfix cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 13 May 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Kde
Kde plasma-login-manager
Vendors & Products Kde
Kde plasma-login-manager

Wed, 13 May 2026 10:30:00 +0000

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Title Privileged D-Bus Helper Allows Service Account to Modify System Files

Wed, 13 May 2026 09:15:00 +0000

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Description The new upstream added a privileged D-Bus helper called plasmaloginauthhelper, which suffers from multiple issues, e.g.aA compromised plasmalogin service account can chown() arbitrary files in the system.
Weaknesses CWE-250
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-13T10:48:34.575Z

Reserved: 2026-02-05T15:37:24.184Z

Link: CVE-2026-25710

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-13T09:04:49.938Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-05-13T13:01:30.807

Modified: 2026-05-13T15:35:35.267

Link: CVE-2026-25710

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-13T10:34:40Z

Weaknesses