CVE-2018-8885

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CVSS 3.0

7.0 high

EPSS

<1%p12

Published

Mar 28, 2018 (Mar 28, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: canonical
Products: screen-resolution-extra, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-362
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.2%)

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