Security Advisory
CVE-2018-8885
7
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
March 28, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory