CVE-2013-1065

medium

Published 2013-10-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
ubuntu	12.04	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
martin_pitt	jockey	`{"endIncluding":"0.9.7-0ubuntu7.10"}`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.5`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.6`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.7`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.8`
martin_pitt	jockey	`0.9.7-0ubuntu7.9`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.