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CVE-2019-6133

CVSS v3.0 6.7 (Medium)
67% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.4 (Medium)
44% Progress
EPSS 0.08 % (34th)
0.08% Progress
Affected Products 9
Advisories 24
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In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

Weaknesses
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2019-01-11 14:29:00
(5 years ago)
Updated Date
2020-08-24 17:37:01
(4 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Polkit Project

Redhat

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Polkit Project Polkit 0.115 cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.115

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.6 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.6 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 7.6 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0

Configuration #4

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 6.6 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:6.6
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0

Configuration #5

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10