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%
apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1
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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | apt-xapian-index | < 0.44ubuntu5.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 12.10 | noarch | apt-xapian-index | < 0.44ubuntu7.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 13.04 | noarch | apt-xapian-index | < 0.45ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |