CVE-2013-1061

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-03 21:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7

0.82.7

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.1

0.82.7.1

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.2

0.82.7.2

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.3

0.82.7.3

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.82.7.4

0.82.7.4

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9

0.92.9

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9.1

0.92.9.1

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.9.2

0.92.9.2

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17

0.92.17

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17.1

0.92.17.1

Marc Deslauriers software-properties 0.92.17.2

0.92.17.2

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10

12.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.04

13.04

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