CVE-2020-16121

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

PackageKit provided detailed error messages to unprivileged callers that exposed information about file presence and mimetype of files that the user would be unable to determine on its own.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16121

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16121.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202106-18

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.2.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.