Race condition vulnerability in KDE kdelibs and kauth allows local users to bypass access restrictions via D-Bus communication with a polkit authority

CVE-2014-5033 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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."

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