CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1063
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
usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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 13.10
• evan dandrea usb-creator 0.2.38
• evan dandrea usb-creator 0.2.38.1
• evan dandrea usb-creator 0.2.40
• evan dandrea usb-creator 0.2.47
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54901 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1963-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54901 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1963-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2 Patch
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1 Patch