CVE-2016-7787

medium

Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.9

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.9

Description

A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as super user.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

59%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4:5.8.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4:5.8.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4:5.8.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4:5.8.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4:5.8.0-1`
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kde	kde-cli-tools	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.