CVE-2014-5033
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.9 · CWE-362
6.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004