CVE-2020-27349

Publication date 8 December 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Aptdaemon performed policykit checks after interacting with potentially untrusted files with elevated privileges. This affected versions prior to 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu34.1, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19.5, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.5.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
aptdaemon	20.10 groovy	Fixed 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu34.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4664-1
Aptdaemon vulnerabilities
8 December 2020

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27349