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CVE-2018-19788

Date: December 3, 2018

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (16)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0001/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19788

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-19788

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19788

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19788

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19788

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html

Url: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74

Url: https://bugs.debian.org/915332

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-19788

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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