CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-23556
8.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• guake-project guake (< 3.8.5)
References
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1796 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017/commits/e3d671120bfe7ba28f50e256cc5e8a629781b888 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/releases Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-GUAKE-2386334 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1796 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017/commits/e3d671120bfe7ba28f50e256cc5e8a629781b888 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Guake/guake/releases Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-GUAKE-2386334 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory