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HistoryJul 30, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

kdelibs -- KAuth PID Reuse Flaw

2014-07-3000:00:00
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12

6.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

Martin Sandsmark reports:

The KAuth framework uses polkit-1 API which tries to authenticate
using the requestors PID. This is prone to PID reuse race
conditions.
This potentially allows a malicious application to pose as another
for authentication purposes when executing privileged actions.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
FreeBSDanynoarchkdelibs< 4.12.5_3UNKNOWN

6.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%