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CVE-2013-1062

• 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

ubuntu-system-service 0.2.4 before 0.2.4.1. 0.2.3 before 0.2.3.1, and 0.2.2 before 0.2.2.1 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
• Michael Vogt Ubuntu-System-Service: 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/54907
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1962-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54907
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1962-1

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