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CVE-2013-4288

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published10/3/2013

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxopensuse:opensusepolkit_project:polkitredhat:enterprise_linux

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1270.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/626(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1953-1(secalert@redhat.com)

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1270.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/626(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1953-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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