CVE-2013-4325

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2013-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The check_permission_v1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.9 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.

Affected products

HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project: 1.0, 2.0, 2.7.10, 3.9.2, 3.9.4, 3.9.4b (+29)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1274.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1956-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1274.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1956-1

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