CVE-2013-4288
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2 · CWE-362
7.2CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1270.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/626Advisory