CVSS 3.0
7.0 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-8885
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:screen-resolution-extra
- canonical:ubuntu_linux