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CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

Published

2014-08-19T18:55:03.233

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-362

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	debian	kde4libs	-	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Application	kde	kauth	≤ 5.0	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	≤ 4.13.97	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.0	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.1	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.2	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.3	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.95	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.10.97	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.0	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.1	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.2	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.3	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.4	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.5	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.80	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.90	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.95	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.11.97	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.0	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.1	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.2	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.3	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.4	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.5	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.80	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.90	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.95	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.12.97	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.0	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.1	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.2	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.3	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.80	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.90	Yes
Application	kde	kdelibs	4.13.95	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html ([email protected])
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a ([email protected])
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60385 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60633 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60654 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004 ([email protected])
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60385 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60633 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60654 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)