CVE-2011-1485

Policykit vulnerability

CVSS

6.9

EPSS

5.2%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Redhat

Affected product

Policykit

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-362 — Race Condition

Published

2011-05-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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