CVE-2018-19788

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19788

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19788.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201901-2

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.116-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.105-23
debian debianbullseyefixed0.105-23
debian debianforkyfixed0.105-23
debian debiansidfixed0.105-23
debian debiantrixiefixed0.105-23

References

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