CVE-2013-1063

2013-09-1800:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

JSON

usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38
before 0.2.38.2 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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchusb-creator< 0.2.38.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchusb-creator< 0.2.40ubuntu2UNKNOWN
ubuntu13.04noarchusb-creator< 0.2.47.1UNKNOWN