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.
                
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References
        | Link | Providers | 
|---|---|
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/ |     | 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-03-28T20:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T07:10:46.961Z
Reserved: 2018-03-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-8885
 Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-03-28T20:29:00.397
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:14:31.680
Link: CVE-2018-8885
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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