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systemd: insecure calling of polkit

Published Oct 3, 2013

Description

systemd 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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (8)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Oct 3, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 12, 2013

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026

Red Hat

Severity Important
Public date Sep 18, 2013
Bugzilla 1006680

ENISA EUVD

Assigner redhat
Published Oct 3, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024

GitHub

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