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CVE-2013-1064

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Description

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published10/3/2013

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:apt-xapian-indexcanonical:ubuntu_linux

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/54914(security@ubuntu.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1955-1(security@ubuntu.com)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu5.1(security@ubuntu.com)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu7.1(security@ubuntu.com)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.45ubuntu2.1(security@ubuntu.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/54914(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1955-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu5.1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.44ubuntu7.1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/0.45ubuntu2.1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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