CVE-2019-6133 (GCVE-0-2019-6133)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-01-11 14:00
Modified
2024-08-04 20:16
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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