Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freedesktop/spice-gtk package, versions [,0.14]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPSPICEGTK-2366517
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4324  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freedesktop/spice-gtk.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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.

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