Vulnerability CVE-2011-1485
Published: 2011-05-31   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
PolicyKit Pwnage linux local privilege escalation on polkit-1 <= 0.101
zx2c4
10.10.2011
Med.
Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation
xi4oyu
19.10.2014

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Policykit 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
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