Access Restriction Bypass Affecting software-properties package, versions <0.82.7.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-SOFTWAREPROPERTIES-288037
  • published3 Oct 2013
  • disclosed3 Oct 2013

Introduced: 3 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-1061  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:12.04 software-properties to version 0.82.7.5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream software-properties package and not the software-properties package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:12.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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 Base Scores

version 3.1