CVE-2026-41651: fallo de gravedad alta en PackageKit
PackageKit vulnerable to TOCTOU Race on Transaction Flags leads to arbitrary package installation as root
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41Vexday Risk Score
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ssvc Attendcvss 8.8epss 0.5%
de la publicación al arma11 días
Publicada en NVD22 abr
1ª PoC+11d
probabilidad de explotación
0.5%top 60% de las CVE
explotación observada
noninguna fuente lo reporta
3 exploit(s) público(s)
PackageKit is a a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. PackageKit between and including versions 1.0.2 and 1.3.4 is vulnerable to a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition on transaction flags that allows unprivileged users to install packages as root and thus leads to a local privilege escalation. This is patched in version 1.3.5.
A local unprivileged user can install arbitrary RPM packages as root, including executing RPM scriptlets, without authentication. The vulnerability is a TOCTOU race condition on `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` combined with a silent state-machine guard that discards illegal backward transitions while leaving corrupted flags in place. Three bugs exist in `src/pk-transaction.c`:
1. Unconditional flag overwrite (line 4036): `InstallFiles()` writes caller-supplied flags to `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` without checking whether the transaction has already been authorized/started. A second call blindly overwrites the flags even while the transaction is RUNNING.
2. Silent state-transition rejection (lines 873–882): `pk_transaction_set_state()` silently discards backward state transitions (e.g. `RUNNING` → `WAITING_FOR_AUTH`) but the flag overwrite at step 1 already happened. The transaction continues running with corrupted flags.
3. Late flag read at execution time (lines 2273–2277): The scheduler's idle callback reads cached_transaction_flags at dispatch time, not at authorization time. If flags were overwritten between authorization and execution, the backend sees the attacker's flags.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Productos afectados
PackageKit · PackageKitPoCs públicas encontradas — 3
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Referencias
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11504https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11635https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17558https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17560https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17561https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18024https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18031https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18036https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19141https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19354https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19454https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19601