CVE-2015-1327: Content-hub DBUS API doesn't prevent confined apps from passing paths to files without access

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Content Hub before version 0.0+15.04.20150331-0ubuntu1.0 DBUS API only requires a file path for a content item, it doesn't actually require the confined app have access to the file to create a transfer. This could allow a malicious application using the DBUS API to export file:///etc/passwd which would then send a copy of that file to another app.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.04

References

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/content-hub/trunk/revision/212
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/content-hub/trunk/revision/212

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