CVE-2022-0987

Publication date 28 June 2022

Last updated 27 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
packagekit	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

As of 2026-04-27, there is no fix available for this issue from packagekit developers

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N