USN-8957-1: authd vulnerability
USN-8957-1
Summary
It was discovered that UDisks did not correctly validate the caller identity when handling the as-user option in the org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.Mount() D-Bus method. A local attacker with an active console session could possibly use this issue to mount filesystems on behalf of arbitrary users, including privileged accounts, leading to local privilege escalation.
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