CVE-2018-1116

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

Score

CVSS 3.0 4.7 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-07-10

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-285, CWE-862

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Polkit (Polkit Project)
• Polkit (Unknown)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/