CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4327
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
systemd 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
• systemd project systemd (<= 207)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2777 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1961-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006680 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2777 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1961-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006680 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory