{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2013-4288", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "openSUSE-SU-2013:1528", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html" }, { "name": "RHSA-2013:1270", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1270.html" }, { "name": "openSUSE-SU-2013:1527", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20130918 Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit races", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20130918 Re: Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit races", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/626" }, { "name": "openSUSE-SU-2013:1617", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html" }, { "name": "openSUSE-SU-2013:1620", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html" }, { "name": "RHSA-2013:1460", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html" }, { "name": "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375" }, { "name": "USN-1953-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1953-1" } ] } }