CVE-2019-6133 (GCVE-0-2019-6133)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-11 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:16
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/comm… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merg… x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.