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CVE-2013-1066

• 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

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 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
• Ubuntu Developers Language-Selector: 0.79, 0.79.1, 0.79.2, 0.79.3, 0.90, 0.110

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/54911
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54911
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1958-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87379
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1

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