CyberRota Analysis
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CVE
CVE-2018-8885
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
0.22%
Original NVD 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.
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