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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2022-0987 json

A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files.

published 2022-06-28 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2022-15981

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0987 updated cvss 3.3

PackageKit: Information Disclosure in Transaction Interface via timing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 PackageKit, PackageKit-qt, PackageKit-yum, PackageKit-cron, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-gtk-module, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 PackageKit, PackageKit-yum, PackageKit-cron, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-yum-plugin, PackageKit-gtk3-module, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 PackageKit, PackageKit-cron, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-gtk3-module, PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin, PackageKit-command-not-found
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 PackageKit, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-gtk3-module, PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin, PackageKit-command-not-found
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a PackageKit

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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