CVE-2013-4288

Polkit (PolicyKit) contains a race condition that can allow a local user to bypass authorization by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the polkit authorization check completes. The issue centers on the PolkitUnixProcess race (including polkit_unix_process_new API usage) and is related to ...

CVE-2013-4327

systemd 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

rtkit: insecure calling of polkit

RealtimeKit aka rtkit 0.5 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, a related issue to...

Race condition

The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.9 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 conditio...

CVE-2013-1062

ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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...

RageAgainstTheCage adb

adb fails to check setuid return code and this can be caused to fail by the shell user already having RLIMITNPROC processes...

IBM Db2 Audit Facility Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Linux

IBM Db2 is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:ibm:db2"; ifdescription...

Amazon Linux AMI : dbus (ALAS-2012-128)

It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Unsafe popen(3) (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/post/common' require...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

VMWare Workstation up to and including 9.0.2 build-1031769 and Player have a setuid executable called vmware-mount that invokes lsbrelease in the PATH with popen3. Since PATH is user-controlled, and the default system shell on Debian-derived distributions does not drop privs, we can put an...

VMware Patches Root Privilege-Escalation Flaw

VMware has fixed a privilege-escalation flaw in two of its major products that could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges on a vulnerable machine. The bug affects VMware Workstation and Player on certain Linux platforms. The vulnerability, which VMware patched on Thursday, does not enab...

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Popen lsb_release Privilege Escalation

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Popen lsbrelease Privilege Escalation // Source: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html On most modern Linux systems, /bin/sh is provided by bash, which detects that it's being invoked as sh, and attempts to mimic traditional sh. As everyone who...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

VMWare Workstation up to and including 9.0.2 build-1031769 and Player have a setuid executable called vmware-mount that invokes lsbrelease in the PATH with popen3. Since PATH is user-controlled, and the default system shell on Debian-derived distributions does not drop privs, we can put an...

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Popen lsb_release Privilege Escalation

// Source: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html On most modern Linux systems, /bin/sh is provided by bash, which detects that it's being invoked as sh, and attempts to mimic traditional sh. As everyone who works in security quickly learns, bash will drop privileges very earl...

Hiawatha 'setuid' Local Privilege Escalation

According to its server response header, the installed version of Hiawatha is a version prior to 1.0b. A flaw exists in the 'setuid' function that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69036;...

Oracle Linux 5 : acpid (ELSA-2009-1642)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1642 advisory. 1.0.4-9.el54.1 - Resolves: 515062 CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 619 (x86) - Local Privilege Escalation

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 619 x86 - Local Privilege Escalation Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 local root on x86 Larry W. Cashdollar 7/3/2013 @larry0 If the system administrator is updating the system using update manager or smpatch multi user mode a local user could execute...

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 (x86) - Local Privilege Escalation

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 local root on x86 Larry W. Cashdollar 7/3/2013 @larry0 If the system administrator is updating the system using update manager or smpatch multi user mode a local user could execute commands as root. This only affects x86 systems as this code resides under a...

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 Local root on x86

Exploit for linux/x86 platform in category local exploits If the system administrator is updating the system using update manager or smpatch multi user mode a local user could execute commands as root. This only affects x86 systems as this code resides under a case statement checking that the...