CVE-2013-4288
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 12, 2013
Description
Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1528vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1270vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1527vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130918 Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit racesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20130918 Re: Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit racesmailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1617vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1620vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1460vendor-advisory
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
- USN-1953-1vendor-advisory
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