VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1828

low
Published 2011-05-16 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

usb-creator-helper in usb-creator before 0.2.28.3 does not enforce intended PolicyKit restrictions, which allows local users to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
evan_dandreausb-creator{"endIncluding":"0.2.28"}
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.1
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.2
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.3
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.4
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.5
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.6
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.7
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.8
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.9
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.10
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.11
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.12
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.13
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.14
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.15
evan_dandreausb-creator0.1.16
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.0
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.1
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.2
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.3
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.4
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.5
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.6
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.7
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.8
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.9
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.10
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.11
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.12
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.13
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.14
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.15
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.16
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.17
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.18
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.19
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.20
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.21
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.22
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.23
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.24
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.25
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.26
evan_dandreausb-creator0.2.27

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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