Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 20.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.7
CVSS v2 Score 3.6
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/
- 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/
Products affected by CVE-2018-1116
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:-
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.100
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.101
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.102
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.103
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.104
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.105
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.106
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.107
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.108
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.109
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.110
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.111
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.112
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.112.1
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.113
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.114
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.91
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.92
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.93
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.94
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.95
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.96
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.97
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.98
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cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:0.99
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0