Vulnerability in Kde Kauth
CVE-2014-5033
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.004 (28.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Kde Kauth
- Kde Kdelibs — versions 4.10.0, 4.10.1, 4.10.2
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04
- Debian Kde4libs
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-5033?
- CVE-2014-5033 is a vulnerability in Kde Kauth, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). Published 2014-08-19.
- Is CVE-2014-5033 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.