CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4664
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
In ConsoleKit before 0.4.2, an intended security policy restriction bypass was found. This flaw allows an authenticated system user to escalate their privileges by initiating a remote VNC session.
Affected configurations
• consolekit project consolekit (< 0.4.2)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4664 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4664 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4664 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4664 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4664 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4664 Third Party Advisory