CVE-2018-8885

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3