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medium 5.3

CVE-2011-2515 json

PackageKit 0.6.17 allows installation of unsigned RPM packages as though they were signed which may allow installation of non-trusted packa…

published 2019-11-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-2500

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PackageKit 0.6.17 allows installation of unsigned RPM packages as though they were signed which may allow installation of non-trusted packages and execution of arbitrary code.

Patch / fix

  • packagekit Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.6.17-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2515

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-2011-2515 updated cvss 1.5

PackageKit: installs unsigned RPM packages as though they were signed

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 PackageKit, PackageKit-qt, PackageKit-yum, PackageKit-cron, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-gtk-module, +6 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 PackageKit, PackageKit-yum, PackageKit-cron, PackageKit-glib, PackageKit-yum-plugin, PackageKit-gtk3-module, +2 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • packagekit packagekit

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.