In gksu-polkit before 0.0.3, the source file for xauth may contain arbitrary commands that may allow an attacker to overtake an administrator X11 session.
9.8CVSS
9.4AI Score
0.002EPSS
gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation
7.8CVSS
7.6AI Score
0.0004EPSS
gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.
7.8CVSS
7.4AI Score
0.0004EPSS