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."
Published: 2014-08-19
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Kde4libs
Kde Kauth Kdelibs
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:34:37.288Z

Reserved: 2014-07-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-5033

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-19T18:55:03.233

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-5033

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-5033 - Bugzilla

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