CVE-2021-23556

Exposed Dangerous Method or Function

State
Published
Severity
6.4 Medium
Published
Mar 17, 2022
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jan 8, 2021

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Description

The package guake before 3.8.5 are vulnerable to Exposed Dangerous Method or Function due to the exposure of execute_command and execute_command_by_uuid methods via the d-bus interface, which makes it possible for a malicious user to run an arbitrary command via the d-bus method. **Note:** Exploitation requires the user to have installed another malicious program that will be able to send dbus signals or run terminal commands.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L/E:Psnyk

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
guaken/a
  • before 3.8.5Affected

References

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