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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-08-19T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:34:37.288Z

Reserved: 2014-07-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-5033

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-19T18:55:03.233

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:11:19.663

Link: CVE-2014-5033

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-5033 - Bugzilla