CVE-2012-5617

gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Gksu-polkit (Gksu-polkit)
• Gksu-polkit (Gksu-polkit Project)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099739.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/12/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56918
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5617
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5617