CVE-2013-1065

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

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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
Martin Pitt Jockey: through 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.10; 0.9.7-0ubuntu7, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4, 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.5 (+4)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/54912
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1957-1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11
http://secunia.com/advisories/54912
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1957-1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11

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