CVE-2013-1066

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

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 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
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	12.10	affected
ubuntu	13.04	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.79`
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.79.1`
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.79.2`
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.79.3`
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.90`
ubuntu_developers	language-selector	`0.110`

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.