CVE-2014-5033

polkit-qt: insecure calling of polkit

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 24, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was found that polkit-qt handled authorization requests with PolicyKit via a D-Bus API that is vulnerable to a race condition. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations.

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')