Security Advisory

CVE-2014-5033

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-08-19 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 11:34:37

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

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