CVE-2016-1579

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
22/04/2019
Last modified:
09/10/2019

Description

UDM provides support for running commands after a download is completed, this is currently made use of for click package installation. This functionality was not restricted to unconfined applications. Before UDM version 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1 any confined application could make use of the UDM C++ API to run arbitrary commands in an unconfined environment as the phablet user.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:ubuntu_download_manager:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*