CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5617
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation
Affected configurations
• gksu-polkit project gksu-polkit
• fedoraproject fedora 18
• fedoraproject fedora 19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099739.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/12/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56918 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5617 Issue Tracking
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5617 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099739.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/12/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56918 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5617 Issue Tracking
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5617 Third Party Advisory