Description (CNA)
A flaw was found in PackageKit. PackageKit skips the polkit authorization check for transactions carrying the SIMULATE (dry-run) flag. In the dnf5 backend, the RepoRemove handler ignores that contract and always executes the real transaction because its guard is written as (role == REPO_REMOVE || !SIMULATE), which is always true for RepoRemove. An unprivileged local user can therefore perform a genuine package uninstall while claiming to simulate. This vulnerability only affects systems using PackageKit with the dnf5 backend.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Not supplied / Not supplied | affected 1.3.4 before 1.4.0 |
| Fedora / Fedora | affected 1.3.4 before 1.4.0 |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected |
CWE
CWE-863
References
- https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/33be77b3ecd3b566ca117358dc18c58c964e627b
- https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/security/advisories/GHSA-g5gf-h68q-gxc8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515940
ADP enrichment
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