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osvGoogleOSV:CVE-2019-6133
HistoryJan 11, 2019 - 2:29 p.m.

CVE-2019-6133

2019-01-1114:29:00
Google
osv.dev
7

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

33.0%

In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the “start time” protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

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