Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all packagekit_project-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk path handling and vendor risk memory corruption and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact file overwrite and vendor impact memory corruption.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-41651 | 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 ro | [email protected] | 8.8 | 0.41% | 2026-04-22 | 2026-05-05 |
| CVE-2024-0217 | A use-after-free flaw was found in PackageKitd. In some conditions, the order of cleanup mechanics for a transaction could be impacted. As a result, some memory access could occur on memory regions that were previously freed. Once freed, a memory region can be reused for other allocations and any previously stored data in this memory region is considered lost. | [email protected] | 3.3 | 0.23% | 2024-01-03 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2022-0987 | A flaw was found in PackageKit in the way some of the methods exposed by the Transaction interface examines files. This issue allows a local user to measure the time the methods take to execute and know whether a file owned by root or other users exists. | [email protected] | 3.3 | 0.25% | 2022-06-28 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2020-16122 | PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages. | [email protected] | 8.2 | 0.34% | 2020-11-07 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2020-16121 | PackageKit provided detailed error messages to unprivileged callers that exposed information about file presence and mimetype of files that the user would be unable to determine on its own. | [email protected] | 3.3 | 0.46% | 2020-11-07 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2011-2515 | 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. | [email protected] | 5.3 | 0.39% | 2019-11-27 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-1106 | An authentication bypass flaw has been found in PackageKit before 1.1.10 that allows users without administrator privileges to install signed packages. A local attacker can use this vulnerability to install vulnerable packages to further compromise a system. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.39% | 2018-04-23 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2013-1764 | The Zypper (aka zypp) backend in PackageKit before 0.8.8 allows local users to downgrade packages via the "install updates" method. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.38% | 2014-04-16 | 2026-05-06 |