Improper D-Bus Security Policy Configurations in Tizen's pkgmgr System Service Allow Unprivileged Process to Perform Package Management Actions

Improper D-Bus Security Policy Configurations in Tizen's pkgmgr System Service Allow Unprivileged Process to Perform Package Management Actions

CVE-2018-16262 · HIGH Severity

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

The pkgmgr system service in Tizen allows an unprivileged process to perform package management actions, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include installing, decrypting, and killing other packages. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1, and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

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