A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-15981 A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists.
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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00113}

epss

{'score': 0.00041}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:47:42.975Z

Reserved: 2022-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-0987

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-28T17:15:08.163

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:39:48.273

Link: CVE-2022-0987

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-0987 - Bugzilla

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