CVE-2013-4324

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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.

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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 5 years ago

2019-06-17 13:55:00

Affected Software

Spice-GTK Project Spice-GTK 0.14

0.14

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2013:1562

RHSA-2013:1273

Vendor Advisory

54947

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20130918 Re: Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit races

62538

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