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CVE-2018-8885

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Canonical ≫ Screen-resolution-extra Version 0.17.2
Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version 14.04 SwEdition lts
Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version 16.04 SwEdition lts
Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version 17.10
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.22% 0.122
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 7 1 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NIST 4.4 3.4 6.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.