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CVE-2018-1116

Public on 2018-07-10
Modified on 2020-06-17
Description

It was found that Polkit's CheckAuthorization and RegisterAuthenticationAgent D-Bus calls did not validate the client provided UID. A specially crafted program could use this flaw to submit arbitrary UIDs, triggering various denial of service or minor disclosures, such as which authentication is cached in the victim's session.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core polkit 2020-06-16 18:05 ALAS2-2020-1437

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L