CVE-2019-6133
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6133
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6133.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 0.116-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.19.16-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.19.16-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.19.16-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.19.16-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.19.16-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.