Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere Affecting ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon package, versions [,1.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UBUNTUADVANTAGEDESKTOPDAEMON-7411526
  • published28 Jun 2024
  • disclosed27 Jun 2024
  • creditMarco Trevisan

Introduced: 27 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-6388  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-497  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon to version 1.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere due to the insecure handling of sensitive data. An attacker with local access can intercept the Pro token by observing the plaintext argument during process execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1