Access Restriction Bypass Affecting PackageKit/PackageKit package, versions [,0.8.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PACKAGEKITPACKAGEKIT-2440674
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Apr 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Apr 2014

CVE-2013-1764  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PackageKit/PackageKit to version 0.8.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The Zypper (aka zypp) backend in PackageKit before 0.8.8 allows local users to downgrade packages via the "install updates" method.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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