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CVE-2018-1116

Description

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

Risk Information

Base Score
4.4
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.065

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-18ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-18ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-14.1ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-14.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.2_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.2_amd64.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-20ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-3717-1) libpolkit-backend-1-0_0.105-20ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libpolkit0-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) polkit-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) polkit-debuginfo-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) polkit-debugsource-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-5.9.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-0.112-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-0.112-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-devel-0.112-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-devel-0.112-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-docs-0.112-26.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-0.112-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-0.112-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-devel-0.112-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-devel-0.112-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1135) polkit security and bug fix update polkit-docs-0.112-26.el7.noarch.rpmLinux
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
Missing Authorization Vulnerability (CVE-2018-1116)NCM

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