Description
spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
Published: 2013-10-03
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-4211 spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Spice-gtk Project Spice-gtk
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:38:01.982Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4324

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-10-03T21:55:04.397

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-4324

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2013-09-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4324 - Bugzilla

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