CVE-2013-1061
EPSS 0.06%Published: 10/3/2013Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1061
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/software-propertiesfrom 0, < 0.92.18