CVE-2018-1116 (GCVE-0-2018-1116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-10 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:51
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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[UNKNOWN] polkit Version: polkit 0.116
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