CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1061

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2013-10-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

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 configurations

• marc deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.1 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.2 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.3 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.4 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9.1 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9.2 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17.1 • marc deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17.2 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 13.04

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References