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aptdaemon Information Disclosure via Improper Input Validation in Transaction class

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 16, 2023

Package

pip aptdaemon (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.1.1

Patched versions

1.1.1

Description

There is no input validation on the Locale property in an apt transaction. An unprivileged user can supply a full path to a writable directory, which lets aptd read a file as root. Having a symlink in place results in an error message if the file exists, and no error otherwise. This way an unprivileged user can check for the existence of any files on the system as root.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Aug 7, 2023
Last updated Aug 16, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.046%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-15703

GHSA ID

GHSA-wpmr-q825-x4c6

Source code

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