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CVE-2013-4326

rtkit: insecure calling of polkit

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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

RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, 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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

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