CVE-2014-8651

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank David Edmundson for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "kde-workspace: arbitrary code execution and local privilege escalation", "id": "1163778", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163778"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "6.9", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-78", "details": ["The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility (ntp utility name) argument."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "Add a polkit rule to disable the org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.save action. This rule can be tweaked by configuring file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.policy\nno = NOT AUTHORIZED for inactive sessions\n<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>\nauth_admin = Administration Authorization is Required to perform such action. Change this to 'no'\n<allow_active>no</allow_active>"}, "name": "CVE-2014-8651", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "kde-workspace", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}], "public_date": "2014-11-04T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8651\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8651"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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