Vulnerability in Marc Deslauriers Software-Properties
CVE-2013-1061
dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.
EPSS: 0.004 (28.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Marc_deslauriers Software-properties — versions 0.82.7, 0.82.7.1, 0.82.7.2
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)