Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-1658

RCE

Title: Freedesktop Policykit RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-1658.

CWE Category CWE-134

Published Date Apr 11, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-1658: Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.

Impacted Vendors

redhat 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7 http://secunia.com/advisories/29755 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28702 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1254 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41877 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15295 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7 http://secunia.com/advisories/29755 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28702 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1254 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41877 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-1658 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 11, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.