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Vulnerability CVE-2018-8885
Published: 2018-03-28
| Description: |
screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService._check_permission call. |
Type:
CWE-362
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.4/10 |
6.4/10 |
3.4/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
Partial |
Partial |
References: |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/
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