Security Advisory

CVE-2019-6133

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-01-11 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 20:16:23
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.