Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-6133

Title: Polkit Project Polkit Path Traversal / LFI

Path Traversal / LFI

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-6133.

CWE Category CWE-362
Published Date Jan 11, 2019
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.7 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-6133: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
polkit_project 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00049.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692 https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-2/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00049.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106537 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0230 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0420 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2699 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2978 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1692 https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/commit/c898fdf4b1aafaa04f8ada9d73d77c8bb76e2f81 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/merge_requests/19 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22715344 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3901-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3908-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3910-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3934-2/
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.7
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-6133 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 HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.