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CVE-2019-6133

Published: Jan 11, 2019Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-362
NVD MITRE
6.7CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 64.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:LUI:RS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected Products

n/an/a
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
PolkitСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Astra Linux Common EditionООО «РусБИТех-Астра»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
ооо «русбитех-астра»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka rusbitech-astra
and 12 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81
gitlab.freedesktop.org
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230
access.redhat.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 11, 2019
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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