Vulnerability CVE-2018-19788
Published: 2018-12-03

Description:
A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 INT_MAX
MSS Team
04.05.2020

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9/10
10/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Polkit project -> Polkit 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
https://bugs.debian.org/915332
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350
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