{"id":"CVE-2018-8885","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-14T09:31:17.193337Z","published":"2018-03-28T20:29:00.397Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3607-1/"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.17.2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"16.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"17.10"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-8885.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}