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CVE-2011-1485

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Affected products

• RedHat Policykit: 0.96

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48817
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html

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