Vulnerability CVE-2012-5617


Published: 2019-11-25   Modified: 2019-11-29

Description:
gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation

Type:

CWE-269

(Improper Privilege Management)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux-aarhus -> Gksu-polkit 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099739.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/12/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56918
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5617
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5617

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