VDB
CVE-2018-8885
CVE-2018-8885
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7 HIGH
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.
EPSS 0.22% · 10.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.22%
10.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | screen-resolution-extra | 0, 0.17.1 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | screen-resolution-extra | 0, 0.15ubuntu1, 0.16 |
Timeline
- Mar 26, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 29, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 8, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 10, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 12, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8885 third-party-advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1753772 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3607-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8885 third-party-advisory