CVE-2014-1422 Location service uses cached authorization even after revocation
Applications retain location access after user revocation due to cached permissions, bypassing privacy controls in Ubuntu's trust-store.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-1422?
CVE-2014-1422 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical trust-store (Ubuntu RTM), published on 22 Jul 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in src/core/trust/impl/sqlite3/store.cpp. Fixed in trust-store (Ubuntu) version 1.1.0+15.04.20150123-0ubuntu1 and trust-store (Ubuntu RTM) version 1.1.0+15.04.20150123~rtm-0ubuntu1.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1422?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Canonical Trust-Store \(Ubuntu\), Canonical Trust-Store \(Ubuntu Rtm\).
How do I fix CVE-2014-1422?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1422 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2014-1422 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1422 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hm2r-m89c-6rgm.