Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | PolicyKit vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | USN-3934-1 | First vendor Publication | 2019-04-03 |
Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2019-04-03 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 4.4 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 3.4 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: PolicyKit could allow unintended access. Software Description: - policykit-1: framework for managing administrative policies and privileges Details: It was discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly relied on the fork() system call in the Linux kernel being atomic. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain access to services that have cached authorizations. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3934-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-362 | Race Condition |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Os | 5 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 2 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 1 | |
Os | 2 |
Alert History
Date | Informations |
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2019-09-03 12:06:49 |
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2019-04-03 17:18:43 |
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