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CVE-2011-1485

Description

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.0
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
7.522

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Polkit update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Polkit-devel update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
Polkit-devel update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Polkit-docs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-docs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.noarch.rpmLinux
Polkit-libs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
Polkit-libs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234