Information Exposure Affecting freedesktop/polkit package, versions [,0.115)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPPOLKIT-2366576
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-1116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freedesktop/polkit to version 0.115 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

CVSS Base Scores

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