Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-1116

Title: Polkit Project Polkit Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-1116.

CWE Category CWE-862
Published Date Jul 10, 2018
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.4 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-1116: A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

Impacted Vendors

P
polkit_project 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.4
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-1116 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.