Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

  • Published: Aug 19, 2014
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2014-5033
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 12.04 12.04.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.90 4.13.90.x
kde / kdelibs - 4.13.97.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.4 4.11.4.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.97 4.10.97.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.3 4.12.3.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.2 4.10.2.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.1 4.12.1.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.90 4.11.90.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.90 4.12.90.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.97 4.12.97.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.3 4.13.3.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.2 4.11.2.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.0 4.13.0.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.5 4.11.5.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.0 4.12.0.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.95 4.10.95.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.95 4.13.95.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.2 4.12.2.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.1 4.11.1.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.80 4.13.80.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.80 4.12.80.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.2 4.13.2.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.3 4.10.3.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.1 4.10.1.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.95 4.11.95.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.80 4.11.80.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.3 4.11.3.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.5 4.12.5.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.97 4.11.97.x
kde / kdelibs 4.11.0 4.11.0.x
kde / kdelibs 4.13.1 4.13.1.x
kde / kauth - 5.0.x
kde / kdelibs 4.10.0 4.10.0.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.4 4.12.4.x
kde / kdelibs 4.12.95 4.12.95.x