CVE-2014-5033
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack 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
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.”
Affected configurations
References
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
secunia.com/advisories/60385
secunia.com/advisories/60633
secunia.com/advisories/60654
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
Related
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack 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
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%