UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23556

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23556

    Published: 17 Mar 2022Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-23556

    Summary:

    Details: The package guake before 3.8.5 are vulnerable to Exposed Dangerous Method or Function due to the exposure of execute_command and execute_command_by_uuid methods via the d-bus interface, which makes it possible for a malicious user to run an arbitrary command via the d-bus method. **Note:** Exploitation requires the user to have installed another malicious program that will be able to send dbus signals or run terminal commands.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23556, https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017/commits/e3d671120bfe7ba28f50e256cc5e8a629781b888, https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/2017, https://github.com/Guake/guake/releases, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-GUAKE-2386334, https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1796, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23556

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: guake

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/guake?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.7.2-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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