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CVE-2018-1106

Published: 23 April 2018

An authentication bypass flaw has been found in PackageKit before 1.1.10 that allows users without administrator privileges to install signed packages. A local attacker can use this vulnerability to install vulnerable packages to further compromise a system.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
introduced by f176976e24e8c17b80eff222572275517c16bdad
introduced in 1.0.10

Priority

High

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package Release Status
packagekit
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
artful
Released (1.1.7-1ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/7e8a7905ea9abbd1f384f05f36a4458682cd4697