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.