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CVE-2012-5617

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19
• Gksu-Polkit Project Gksu-Polkit: all versions

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
• 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

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