CVE-2014-5033

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: yes
Published: 2014-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04
Debian Kde4Libs: all versions
KDE Kauth: through 5.0
Kdelibs: through 4.13.97; 4.10.0, 4.10.1, 4.10.2, 4.10.3, 4.10.95, 4.10.97 (+27)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a

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