CVE-2011-1485
Published May 31, 2011
Last updated 12 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-362
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:policykit:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "5EE56136-373A-43CC-A76B-46AC656C820F"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]