Vulnerability CVE-2013-4288
Published: 2013-10-03   Modified: 2013-10-06

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.

Type:

CWE-362

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
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Polkit project -> Polkit 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1270.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/626
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1953-1
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