Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2013-1066 First vendor Publication 2013-10-03
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-29

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1066

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19301
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19301
Title: USN-1958-1 -- language-selector vulnerability
Description: language-selector could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1958-1
CVE-2013-1066
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): language-selector
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-09-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1958-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/54911
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379

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2021-05-04 12:24:13
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2021-04-22 01:29:02
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2017-08-29 09:24:13
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2014-02-17 11:16:59
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2013-10-09 00:19:56
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2013-10-04 21:23:16
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2013-10-04 13:22:18
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