USN-5249-1

It was discovered that USBView allowed unprivileged users to run usbview as root. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to gain administrative privileges or cause a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / usbview

Package

Name: usbview
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/usbview@2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "usbview",
            "binary_version": "2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-1ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2022-23220",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "high",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / usbview