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CVE-2013-4324

spice-gtk: Insecure calling of polkit via polkit_unix_process_new()

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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

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

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 not specified