Medium
Security advisory
An authentication bypass flaw has been found in PackageKit before 1.1.10 that allows users without administrator privileges to install signed packages. A local attacker can use this vulnerability to install vulnerable packages to further compromise a system.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1106
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An authentication bypass flaw has been found in PackageKit before 1.1.10 that allows users without administrator privileges to install signed packages. A local attacker can use this vulnerability to install vulnerable packages to further compromise a system.
osv:CVE-2018-1106
Complete source record
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