PT-2019-7811 · Canonical · Udm

Published 2019-04-22 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-1579

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions UDM versions prior to 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1

Description The issue allows confined applications to run arbitrary commands in an unconfined environment as the phablet user through the UDM C++ API. This is due to a lack of restriction on the functionality that provides support for running commands after a download is completed.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1, update to version 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1579

Affected Products

Udm

References · 5

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1579 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1579 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1579 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1579 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/ubuntu-download-manager/trunk/revision/359 · Note