Vulnerability in Lennart Poettering Rkit
CVE-2013-4326
RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 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 (30.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Lennart_poettering Rkit — versions 0.5
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-4326?
- CVE-2013-4326 is a vulnerability in Lennart Poettering Rkit, classified under CWE-264. Published 2013-10-03.
- Is CVE-2013-4326 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.