CVE-2024-6388

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-497

Description

Marco Trevisan discovered that the Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Daemon, before version 1.12, leaks the Pro token to unprivileged users by passing the token as an argument in plaintext.

Affected products

Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Pro: before 1.12 — fixed in 1.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Pro 1.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/2068944
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon/pull/24
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6388
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/2068944
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon/pull/24
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6388

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