CVE-2026-19816 (GCVE-0-2026-19816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-14 20:05
Modified
2026-09-15 18:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
A flaw was found in PackageKit. PackageKit skips the polkit authorization check for transactions carrying the SIMULATE (dry-run) flag. In the dnf5 backend, the RepoRemove handler ignores that contract and always executes the real transaction because its guard is written as (role == REPO_REMOVE || !SIMULATE), which is always true for RepoRemove. An unprivileged local user can therefore perform a genuine package uninstall while claiming to simulate. This vulnerability only affects systems using PackageKit with the dnf5 backend.
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Impacted products
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