Vulnerabilities > Canonical > Screen Resolution Extra

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2018-03-28 CVE-2018-8885 Race Condition vulnerability in Canonical Screen-Resolution-Extra and Ubuntu Linux
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.
local
high complexity
canonical CWE-362
7.0