Vulnerability CVE-2019-17080
Published: 2019-10-02

Description:
mintinstall (aka Software Manager) 7.9.9 for Linux Mint allows code execution if a REVIEWS_CACHE file is controlled by an attacker, because an unpickle occurs. This is resolved in 8.0.0 and backports.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
mintinstall 7.9.9 Code Execution
Andhrimnirr
03.10.2019

Type:

CWE-502

 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Linuxmint -> Mintinstall 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154722/mintinstall-7.9.9-Code-Execution.html
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=302960
https://github.com/Andhrimnirr/Mintinstall-object-injection
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintinstall/blob/master/debian/changelog
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