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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SYSTEMD_PROJECT
- Published
- 10/3/2013
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
systemd_project : systemddebian : debian_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linux
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