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CVE-2024-6388 json

Marco Trevisan discovered that the Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Daemon, before version 1.12, leaks the Pro token to unprivileged users by passi…

published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-47495

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Marco Trevisan discovered that the Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Daemon, before version 1.12, leaks the Pro token to unprivileged users by passing the token as an argument in plaintext.

Patch / fix

  • Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Pro 1.12
  • canonical ubuntu_advantage_desktop_pro 1.12
  • ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.10.ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.10.ubuntu0.22.04.2
  • ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1.11ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-6388

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Pro
  • canonical ubuntu_advantage_desktop_pro

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-497 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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