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CVE-2013-1063
- 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
usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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, 13.10
- Evan Dandrea Usb-Creator: 0.2.38, 0.2.38.1, 0.2.40, 0.2.47
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54901
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1963-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54901
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1963-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1
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