CVE-2019-6133
—CVSS 3.0
6.7 medium
EPSS
<1%p38
Published
()
Modified
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.
- Vendors
- polkit projectdebianredhatcanonical
- Products
- polkit, debian linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, enterprise linux server tus, enterprise linux workstation, ubuntu linux
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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