CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15703

3.3 LOW Published 2020-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• aptdaemon project aptdaemon 1.1.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References