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Unknown
CVE-2019-6133
CVE-2019-6133
(Last updated October 06, 2023) ▾
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Description
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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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
6.7 Medium
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
0.8
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
Required
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High
General Information
Vendors
- canonical,
- debian,
- polkit project,
- redhat
Products
- debian linux 8.0,
- enterprise linux desktop 6.0,
- enterprise linux desktop 7.0,
- enterprise linux server 6.0,
- enterprise linux server 7.0,
- enterprise linux server aus 6.6,
- enterprise linux server aus 7.6,
- enterprise linux server eus 7.6,
- enterprise linux server tus 7.6,
- enterprise linux workstation 6.0,
- enterprise linux workstation 7.0,
- polkit 0.115,
- ubuntu linux 12.04,
- ubuntu linux 14.04,
- ubuntu linux 16.04,
- ubuntu linux 18.04,
- ubuntu linux 18.10
References
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