CVE-2014-5033
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 19, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 22, 2014
Description
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 60385third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2014:1359vendor-advisory
- DSA-3004vendor-advisory
- USN-2304-1vendor-advisory
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt
- 60654third-party-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0981vendor-advisory
- 60633third-party-advisory
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23
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