{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8885 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2018-8885 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-8885 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-8885 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8885 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-8885/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-8885/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-8885","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-8885/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-8885","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-wpjr-f7r3-fjvc","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8885","USN-3607-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ubuntu screen resolution","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in screen-resolution-extra to bypass access restrictions and escalate privileges via mishandled PolicyKit calls.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"screen-resolution-extra","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"}],"cvss":{"score":7,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"screenresolution-mechanism in screen-resolution-extra 0.17.2 does not properly use the PolicyKit D-Bus API, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a race condition via a setuid or pkexec process that is mishandled in a PolicyKitService._check_permission call.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-8885","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in BlackBerry UEM","id":"CVE-2018-8888"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-8883"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2018-03-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in screen-resolution-extra to bypass access restrictions and escalate privileges via mishandled PolicyKit calls.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-8885/"}