Riskcovery

CVE-2020-16121

PackageKit error messages leak presence and mimetype of files to unprivileged users

State
Published
Severity
3.3 Low
Published
Nov 7, 2020
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jul 29, 2020

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Description

PackageKit provided detailed error messages to unprivileged callers that exposed information about file presence and mimetype of files that the user would be unable to determine on its own.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.3 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Ncanonical

Weaknesses

  • CWE-209 Information Exposure Through an Error Message

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PackageKitPackageKit
  • 1.1.13-2ubuntu to before 1.1.13-2ubuntu1.1Affected
  • 1.1.9-1ubuntu2 to before 1.1.9-1ubuntu2.18.04.6Affected
  • 0.8.17-4ubuntu6 to before 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu1.5Affected

References

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