CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1116
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285, CWE-862
Description
A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• polkit project polkit (< 0.115)
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ Third Party Advisory