CVE-2013-4161

HIGH

gksu-polkit - Improper Privilege Management

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4161
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4161
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 27.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora 18
fedoraproject/fedora 19
gksu-polkit_project/gksu-polkit 0.0.3
Published Dec 31, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026