Description
RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 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, 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-2013-4213 RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1959-1 RealtimeKit vulnerability
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Lennart Poettering Rkit
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:38:01.940Z

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

Link: CVE-2013-4326

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-10-03T21:55:04.427

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

Link: CVE-2013-4326

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2013-4326 - Bugzilla

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