Vulnerability in Martin Pitt Jockey

CVE-2013-1065

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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 (30.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Martin_pitt Jockey — versions 0.9.7-0ubuntu7, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)