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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 31, 2020· Updated Jun 9, 2025

CVE-2020-1712

CVE-2020-1712

Description

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending specially crafted dbus messages.

Affected products

34

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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