CVE-2013-4288
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- polkit_project:polkit
- redhat:enterprise_linux
References
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html