Canonical Screen-Resolution-Extra vulnerabilities

1 known vulnerability affecting canonical/screen-resolution-extra.

Total CVEs

1

CISA KEV

0

Public exploits

0

Exploited in wild

0

Severity breakdown

HIGH1

Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2018-8885HIGHCVSS 7.0v0.17.22018-03-28

CVE-2018-8885 [HIGH] CWE-362 CVE-2018-8885: screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-B 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.