polkit-qt: insecure calling of polkit
Published Aug 19, 2014
6.9
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.36%
Description
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- n/a
- 12.04
- 14.04
Configuration 2
- ≤ 5.0
- ≤ 4.13.97
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.1
- 4.10.2
- 4.10.3
- 4.10.95
- 4.10.97
- 4.11.0
- 4.11.1
- 4.11.2
- 4.11.3
- 4.11.4
- 4.11.5
- 4.11.80
- 4.11.90
- 4.11.95
- 4.11.97
- 4.12.0
- 4.12.1
- 4.12.2
- 4.12.3
- 4.12.4
- 4.12.5
- 4.12.80
- 4.12.90
- 4.12.95
- 4.12.97
- 4.13.0
- 4.13.1
- 4.13.2
- 4.13.3
- 4.13.80
- 4.13.90
- 4.13.95
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
polkit-qt-0:0.103.0-10.el7_0
Fixed · RHSA-2014:1359
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | polkit-qt-0:0.103.0-10.el7_0 | Fixed | RHSA-2014:1359 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.36% (0.00359) | 27.27th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.36% (0.00359) | 27.50th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.04% (0.00041) | 9.43th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 68.34th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 22, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 68.05th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 65.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 41.72th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (14)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5033 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094890 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5033
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5033
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