Improper D-Bus Communication in usb-creator Allows Local Privilege Escalation

CVE-2013-1063 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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.

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