CVE-2020-27349: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Aptdaemon performed policykit checks after interacting with potentially untrusted files with elevated privileges. This affected versions prior to 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu34.1, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19.5, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.5.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only; version 20.10 only

Published 2020-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.