CVE-2015-4625

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: 2015-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Polkit Project Polkit: through 0.112

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-June/000427.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000419.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/08/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/21
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75267
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023

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