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CVE-2013-4324

• 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

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0
• freedesktop.org spice-gtk: 0.14

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00031.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54947
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62538
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00031.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1273.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54947
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62538

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