Published: 03/10/2013 Updated: 29/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

language-selector 0.110.x prior to 0.110.1, 0.90.x prior to 0.90.1, and 0.79.x prior to 0.79.4 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Vulnerable Product	Search on Vulmon	Subscribe to Product
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.1
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.2
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79.3
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.90
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.110
ubuntu developers language-selector 0.79
canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
canonical ubuntu linux 12.04

language-selector could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations ...

CWE-264 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4 http://secunia.com/advisories/54911 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1958-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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