CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1062
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
ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
• michael vogt ubuntu-system-service 0.2.2
• michael vogt ubuntu-system-service 0.2.3
• michael vogt ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54907 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1962-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54907 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1962-1 Vendor Advisory