High
CVE-2020-1712
A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending specially crafted dbus messages.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2020-1712
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2020-1712
systemd
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "[UNKNOWN]",
"product": "systemd",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "before v245-rc1"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2020-1712
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #21547 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date