CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-1061

Published: Oct 03, 2013 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.82.7 (including) 0.82.7 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.82.7.1 (including) 0.82.7.1 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.82.7.2 (including) 0.82.7.2 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.82.7.3 (including) 0.82.7.3 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.82.7.4 (including) 0.82.7.4 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.9 (including) 0.92.9 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.9.1 (including) 0.92.9.1 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.9.2 (including) 0.92.9.2 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.17 (including) 0.92.17 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.17.1 (including) 0.92.17.1 (including)
Software-properties Marc_deslauriers 0.92.17.2 (including) 0.92.17.2 (including)

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