CVE-2013-1061

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
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: 2013-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
Marc Deslauriers Software-Properties: 0.82.7, 0.82.7.1, 0.82.7.2, 0.82.7.3, 0.82.7.4, 0.92.9 (+5)

References

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz
http://secunia.com/advisories/54909
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.17.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.92.9.3
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/150156695/software-properties_0.92.17.2_0.92.17.3.diff.gz
http://secunia.com/advisories/54909
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1960-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87381
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.82.7.5

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