CVE-2013-4288

polkit: unix-process subject for authorization is racy

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 18, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')