Vulnerability CVE-2013-1061
Published: 2013-10-03   Modified: 2013-10-04

Description:
dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Marc deslauriers -> Software-properties 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/87381
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/54909
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz
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