CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19788
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.
Affected configurations
• polkit project polkit 0.115
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/915332 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/915332 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350 Third Party Advisory