CVE-2013-1062

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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.

ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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 11 years ago

2013-10-08 18:05:00

Affected Software

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

Michael Vogt ubuntu-system-service 2.2

0.2.2

Michael Vogt ubuntu-system-service 2.3

0.2.3

Michael Vogt ubuntu-system-service 2.4

0.2.4

References

54907

Vendor Advisory

USN-1962-1

Vendor Advisory

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