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FKIE_CVE-2020-27349

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-12-09 04:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:09
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Aptdaemon performed policykit checks after interacting with potentially untrusted files with elevated privileges. This affected versions prior to 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu34.1, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19.5, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.5.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1899193Broken Link
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4664-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1899193Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4664-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 20.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 20.10
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