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CVE-2011-1485

Date: May 31, 2011

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (15)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1485
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1485
http://secunia.com/advisories/48817
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1485
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1485
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1485

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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