CVSS 3.1
7.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-19816
High (7.1). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in PackageKit. PackageKit skips the polkit authorization check for transactions carrying the SIMULATE (dry-run) flag. In the dnf5 backend, the RepoRemove handler ignores that contract and always executes the real transaction because its guard is written as (role == REPO_REMOVE || !SIMULATE), which is always true for RepoRemove. An unprivileged local user can therefore perform a genuine package uninstall while claiming to simulate. This vulnerability only affects systems using PackageKit with the dnf5 backend.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced