CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1065
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
backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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
• martin pitt jockey (<= 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.10)
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.5
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.6
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.7
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.8
• martin pitt jockey 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.9
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54912 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1957-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54912 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1957-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 Patch