CVE-2014-5033

polkit-qt: insecure calling of polkit

Published Aug 19, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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."

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-76-1 kde4libs security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3004-1 kde4libs security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-4932 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."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2304-1 KDE-Libs vulnerability
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:34 AM
Reserved
Jul 22, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 19, 2014, 6:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:10 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Mar 24, 2014, 12:00 AM