CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1061
4.6 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz launchpadlibrarian.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54909 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3 Patch
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz launchpadlibrarian.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54909 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3 Patch