CVE-2016-1579
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - security@ubuntu.com
- Published
- 2019-04-22
- Last modified
- 2024-09-16
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-download-manager/trunk/revision/359