Vulnerability in Canonical Apt-Xapian-Index

CVE-2013-1064

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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