CVE-2018-8885

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 High 7
Description
screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService._check_permission call.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-8885
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-03-28T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-04-27T11:58:08
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:screen-resolution-extra:0.17.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/ Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8885
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8885
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:45:10 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 03:57:02 2018-03-28T20:29Z 2018-03-28T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 03:57:03 2018-04-27T11:58:08 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 03:57:03 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated