UDM doesn't check for confinement before running post-processing commands

Published 7 y ago 2019-04-22 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.7

v3.0 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.8%

percentile 56%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.77% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.0	6.7	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.0	6.7	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.0	9.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Ubuntu Ubuntu Download Manager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

bazaar.launchpad.net /~phablet-team/ubuntu-download-manager/trunk/revision/359 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-1579
NVD: CVE-2016-1579

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