Executive Summary

Summary
Title PackageKit vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3634-1 First vendor Publication 2018-04-24
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-04-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.10

Summary:

PackageKit could be made to install or run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - packagekit: Provides a package management service

Details:

Matthias Gerstner discovered that PackageKit incorrectly handled authentication. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to install arbitrary packages and escalate privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10:
packagekit 1.1.7-1ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3634-1
CVE-2018-1106

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/1.1.7-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3634-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-a86100a264.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1183.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-31 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-1224.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-29 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1148.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4207.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-a3b7c7eb79.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-27 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-06-06 17:21:18
  • Multiple Updates
2018-04-25 00:18:48
  • First insertion