vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2771-1 (CVE-2015-8768): Click vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 13, 2017
Added
Nov 8, 2024
Modified
Apr 23, 2025

Description

It was discovered that click did not properly perform input sanitization
during click package installation. If a user were tricked into installing a
crafted click package, a remote attacker could exploit this to escalate
privileges by tricking click into installing lenient security policy for
the installed application.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-python3-click
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